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

John Dryden

By education most have been misled.
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Direction Education One Liner
They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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Authority Better General Man Opinion Understand
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Favorite Heaven Man
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Live Lost Luxury People Public
Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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Lost Mild Rage Sea Wind
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
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Authors Enthusiasm Expectation Truth
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
Pity melts the mind to love.
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Love Mindset Pity
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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Empty Enough Fortune Myself Soul
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation
Hushed as midnight silence.
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One Liner Silence
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering

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