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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.

John Dryden

The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Excitement Loud
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
To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Common Death Devil Evil
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Best Silence Suffering Time
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Himself Master Secret Servant Trust
For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Design God Mindset Ruin
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Freedom Man Nature Run Savage Wild
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
Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Discover Future Glide Haste Length Past
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Music Passion Raise
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Lying Myself Wife
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Cheating Favor Fools Hope Life

And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.

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