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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.

John Dryden

What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Dew Precious Pursue Track Young
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Conversation One Liner Soul
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Action Essence Fiction Human Poetry Story
For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Believe Conquer
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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Continue End Goodness Grace Principal Virtue
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Best Kind Ourselves Steal
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Divine Faculty Force God Kind Man Philosophy
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
All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Empire Power Trust
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Believe Easy Invisible Mindset Unknown
If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Judgement People Thinking Understand Wrong

He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.

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