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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.

John Dryden

All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Death Finding Love Time Way
There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Gift Modesty Proud Time
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride
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
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Age Genius Kind Live Study Universe
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Freedom Man Nature Run Savage Wild
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Face Need See Truth
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Degree River Sea
What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Dew Precious Pursue Track Young
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Myself Poverty Soul Virtue Warm
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Greatness Treason Trust
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve

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