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

John Dryden

Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Life Past
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Fragile Love Mindset
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Ideas Nature Pleasure View
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Fly Joy Youth
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Bold Fear Greatness Mask
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Live Lost Luxury People Public
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad
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
The conscience of a people is their power.
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Conscience People Power
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature
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

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

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