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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.

John Dryden

For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Devotion Ignorance Mom Myself Yourself
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Best Silence Suffering Time
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Fury Man Patience
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Degree River Sea
For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Bound Drink Food Live Power Thinking
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fair Fate Myself Possession Rain Shine Time
Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Defense Law Nature
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Himself Scene
Order is the greatest grace.
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Greatness One Liner Order Peace

Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.

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