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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.

John Dryden

An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Brave Deserve Fair
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Numerous Talk Thinking
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave
The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Excitement Loud
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Act Generous Greatness Pleasure Secret
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
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
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
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Music Passion Raise
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
JOHN DRYDEN

Equality Life Live Right

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