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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.

John Dryden

When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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Honor Judgement Man Member Mistake Order
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
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Forgiveness Injury Wrong
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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Growth Myself Reputation Young
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
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Action Essence Fiction Human Poetry Story
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Fly Joy Youth
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Alone Day Happiness Live Man Myself Secure Worst

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