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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

Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Lying Myself Wife
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Crime Oblivion
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Age Empty Experience Known Start World
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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Follow Natural Obligation Paint Rock Sculptor
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Brown Easy Light Night
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Believe Faith Grace Reward See Strength
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
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Age Writing
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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God Goodness Love Thinking World

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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