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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.

John Dryden

More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
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
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Children Crave Growth Man
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Beginning Growth Small
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Age Genius Kind Live Study Universe
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Finite Grasp Infinity
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Degree River Sea
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Alone Day Happiness Live Man Myself Secure Worst
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Fragile Love Mindset
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
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.
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Follow Natural Obligation Paint Rock Sculptor
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
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Gift Heaven Liberty Life Love
The conscience of a people is their power.
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Conscience People Power
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
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
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
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Cheap Death Fame
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Advantage Modesty Proud
Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Himself Loss See Vice

I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.

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