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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

John Dryden

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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Continue End Goodness Grace Principal Virtue
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Conversation One Liner Soul
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Infidelity Mysterious Thinking
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Grace Strength
Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Equality Life Live Right
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Freedom Man Nature Run Savage Wild
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Art Nature Teaching
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Live Lost Luxury People Public
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Death End Grave Kind Mourn
Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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Boast Born Death End Journey Live Man Place Sincere
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Hold Last Sweet
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Goodness Myself Talk Truth
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Ideas Nature Pleasure View

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