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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.

John Dryden

Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Greatness Treason Trust
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
All heiresses are beautiful.
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Beautiful One Liner
Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Favorite Heaven Man
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
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Hold Last Sweet
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Best Silence Suffering Time
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Desire Hands Nature Sick Sin
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Age Empty Experience Known Start World
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Act Generous Greatness Pleasure Secret

Mighty things from small beginnings grow.

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