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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

John Dryden

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
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
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Age Writing
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Enemy Forgiveness Greatness Injury Power Soul Time
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Adversity Grief Misery Wicket
The conscience of a people is their power.
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Conscience People Power
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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One Liner Power Regret Sin
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Ideas Nature Pleasure View
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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Growth Myself Reputation Young
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
Hushed as midnight silence.
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One Liner Silence
Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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Creation Earth Eyes Man Mom Sky Soft

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