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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.

John Dryden

Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Discover Future Glide Haste Length Past
For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Believe Conquer
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Creation Dew Greatness Himself Morning Spirit
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Myself Old Power Remember
All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Empire Power Trust
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Adversity Grief Misery Wicket
Hushed as midnight silence.
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One Liner Silence
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Delight Freedom Human Kind
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
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
None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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Hope Life Live Pleasure Run Thinking
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Affection Goodness Grace Principal
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Fight Myself Rise Wound
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
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Benefit Fate Pleasure Relate Sorrow Time
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Favorite Heaven Man
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth
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
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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Creation Earth Eyes Man Mom Sky Soft
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
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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Better Health Himself Man Work

An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.

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