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

John Dryden

If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Judgement People Thinking Understand Wrong
Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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Boast Born Death End Journey Live Man Place Sincere
The conscience of a people is their power.
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Conscience People Power
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Bound Habit Slave Vice
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Conversation One Liner Soul
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
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Happiness Live
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Live Lost Luxury People Public
A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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Conscience Goodness Image Man Reflection Water
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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Continue End Goodness Grace Principal Virtue
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Death End Grave Kind Mourn
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Gift Heaven Liberty Life Love

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

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