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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.

John Dryden

By education most have been misled.
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Direction Education One Liner
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Instrument Laughter Man Rate
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Best Kind Ourselves Steal
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
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Beautiful Dangerous Surface Way
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Death Fear Known
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Elegant Flower Heaven Western
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Advise Sick
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Defense Law Nature
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Age Alone Enough Reason Strong Walk Youth
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Hold Last Sweet

No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.

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