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Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.

John Dryden

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Age Writing
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Charge Mindset Revenge Sharp
For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Bound Drink Food Live Power Thinking
A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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Conscience Goodness Image Man Reflection Water
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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One Liner Power Regret Sin
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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Estate Himself Misery Money Sell Soul
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Brave Chance Man Subject
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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Continue End Goodness Grace Principal Virtue
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View

Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.

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Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.

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