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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.

John Dryden

For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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Boast Born Death End Journey Live Man Place Sincere
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Race Run Swift 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
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Best Silence Suffering Time
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
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Character Kind Man Natural Painting Person Poetry
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Desire God Greatness Sin
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
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
War is the trade of kings.
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King One Liner Trade War
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Character Habit Inspirational Nature Ourselves
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Numerous Talk Thinking
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work

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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