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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.

John Dryden

Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Different Fools Love Mindset Wisdom
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Authors Enthusiasm Expectation Truth
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
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
Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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Himself Judgement Praise Theme
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
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Excitement Loud
Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Nature Obligation Response Trust
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Plate Time Writing
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Infidelity Mysterious Thinking
Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Friendship Tears
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
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

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