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Order is the greatest grace.

John Dryden

Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
The winds are out of breath.
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Breathe Wind
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Dew Precious Pursue Track Young
By education most have been misled.
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Direction Education One Liner
A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Cheating Man Passion Reason Truth
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Beautiful Language Oneself
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Myself Poverty Soul Virtue Warm
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Face Need See Truth
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Affection Goodness Grace Principal
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Hold Last Sweet
Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Defense Law Nature
And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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Corruption Faith Freedom Need Scripture Sufficient

Order is the greatest grace.

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