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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.

John Dryden

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Brave Deserve Fair
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Beware Man Patience
For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Design God Mindset Ruin
Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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Friendship Love Price Time Treat
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Best Kind Ourselves Steal
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Evidence Passion Reason Rule Weakness
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
JOHN DRYDEN

Bitter Poem Satire

For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.

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