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For they can conquer who believe they can.

John Dryden

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
Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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Empty Enough Fortune Myself Soul
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Empire Power Trust
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Adversity Grief Misery Wicket
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
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Best Give Up Knowledge Nature Production True
Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Crime Murder Punishment Time
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Affection Goodness Grace Principal
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due
I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Fight Myself Rise Wound
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Finite Grasp Infinity
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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Anger Cherish Disappear Forget
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Delight Freedom Human Kind

For they can conquer who believe they can.

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