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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

What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Music Passion Raise
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Build Destroy
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Friendship Tears
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Fight King Mad Man Praise
Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Equality Life Live Right
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Bound Drink Food Live Power Thinking
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Cheap Death Fame
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Action Beautiful Fall Grace Himself People Wrong Youth
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
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Plate Time Writing
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
Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Fury Man Patience
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
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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Eyes Feeling Ourselves Soul Tender Togetherness Touch
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Best Silence Suffering Time
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Dreams Forget Forward Mindset Time
By education most have been misled.
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Direction Education One Liner
The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Excitement Loud
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
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

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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