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

John Dryden

A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Cheating Man Passion Reason Truth
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Art Nature Teaching
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Fortune Madness Prudence Rule
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Face Need See Truth
Pity melts the mind to love.
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Love Mindset Pity
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Delight Freedom Human Kind
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Nature Obligation Response Trust
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
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Death End Grave Kind Mourn
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Believe Children Direction Education Lost Man
Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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Choice Delight Evil Lying Object Truth Understand
But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Cure Love
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Advise Sick
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Infidelity Mysterious Thinking

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

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