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

John Dryden

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Excitement Loud
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Infidelity Mysterious Thinking
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Race Run Swift Time
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Numerous Talk Thinking
I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Fight Myself Rise Wound
For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Design God Mindset Ruin
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Pain Pleasure Sweet
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Fragile Love Mindset
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Goodness Myself Talk Truth
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
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Believe Faith Grace Reward See Strength
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.
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Fair Fate Myself Possession Rain Shine Time
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

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

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