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

John Dryden

Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
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Live Myself Past Power Rain Shine Worst
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature
The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Excitement Loud
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Cure Love
If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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God Goodness Love Thinking World
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Genius Gift Happy Nature
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Best Silence Suffering Time
Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Goodness Ignorance Nature Reason Right World
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Plate Time Writing
Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Criticism Revenge Writing
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Death End Grave Kind Mourn
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue

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