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

John Dryden

Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Age Writing
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Fake Happiness Thinking Trust
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Finite Grasp Infinity
For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Believe Conquer
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
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Fools One Liner Patriot
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
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Dreams Forget Forward Mindset Time
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Divine Faculty Force God Kind Man Philosophy
A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Cheating Man Passion Reason Truth
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Bound Habit Slave Vice
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Bold Fear Greatness Mask

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