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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.

John Dryden

Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Courage Growth Heart
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Care Destroy Happiness Man Thinking
By education most have been misled.
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Direction Education One Liner
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Degree River Sea
None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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Finding Himself Imperfection Mistake Secret
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
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Glitter Gold
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
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Music Passion Raise
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Death End Grave Kind Mourn
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Goodness Myself Talk Truth
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Discover Future Glide Haste Length Past

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