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For they can conquer who believe they can.

John Dryden

Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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Heaven Praise Prayer Promise
Order is the greatest grace.
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Greatness One Liner Order Peace
A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Himself Man Paradise Sin Sorrow Woman
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Goodness Myself Talk Truth
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word
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
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Age Writing
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
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Brave Chance Man Subject
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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Admire Drama Father Himself Home Poet Writing
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Conversation One Liner Soul
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War
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
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Live Lost Luxury People Public
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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Estate Himself Misery Money Sell Soul
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Alone Day Happiness Live Man Myself Secure Worst
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection
Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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Creation Earth Eyes Man Mom Sky Soft

For they can conquer who believe they can.

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