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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.

John Dryden

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
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Different Fools Love Mindset Wisdom
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Act Generous Greatness Pleasure Secret
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
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Believe Easy Invisible Mindset Unknown
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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One Liner Power Regret Sin
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature
Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Age Night Old Ourselves
For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Believe Conquer
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Death Fear Known
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Age Writing
Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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Eyes Feeling Ourselves Soul Tender Togetherness Touch

Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.

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