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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.

John Dryden

Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
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
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Race Run Swift Time
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Myself Old Power Remember
Pity melts the mind to love.
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Love Mindset Pity
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War
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
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
War is the trade of kings.
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King One Liner Trade War
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Himself Scene
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
Hushed as midnight silence.
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One Liner Silence
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson

Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.

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