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

John Dryden

To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Common Death Devil Evil
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Himself Scene
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Action Essence Fiction Human Poetry Story
And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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Corruption Faith Freedom Need Scripture Sufficient
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Death Finding Love Time Way
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Myself Poverty Soul Virtue Warm
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Care Destroy Happiness Man Thinking
Pity melts the mind to love.
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Love Mindset Pity
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Best Silence Suffering Time

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

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