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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.

John Dryden

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Affection Goodness Grace Principal
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Block Government Time
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Life Man Origin Virtue Word
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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Better Health Himself Man Work
Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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Empty Enough Fortune Myself Soul
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
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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Lost Mild Rage Sea Wind
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Age Writing
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
JOHN DRYDEN

Follow Natural Obligation Paint Rock Sculptor
Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Beware Man Patience
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Creation Dew Greatness Himself Morning Spirit
By education most have been misled.
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Direction Education One Liner

Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.

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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.

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