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Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.

John Dryden

If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Live Past Remember Thankful
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Myself Old Power Remember
All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Empire Power Trust
Pity melts the mind to love.
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Love Mindset Pity
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Author Himself Poet Theft Victory
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Instrument Laughter Man Rate
The winds are out of breath.
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Breathe Wind
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Errors Flow Gratitude Surface
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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Himself Judgement Praise Theme
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Grace Strength

Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.

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Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.

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