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But love’s a malady without a cure.

John Dryden

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
Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Hate Love Politics
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Beginning Growth Small
Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Goodness Ignorance Nature Reason Right World
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Brave Deserve Fair
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Adventure First Forgiveness Reason Rule
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Fools One Liner Patriot
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Friendship Tears
Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
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Best Give Up Knowledge Nature Production True
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Glitter Gold
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Grace Strength
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Race Run Swift Time
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Believe Easy Invisible Mindset Unknown
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
All heiresses are beautiful.
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Beautiful One Liner
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Brave Chance Man Subject
Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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Emotion Enthusiasm Height Imagination Paint Poet Soul
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Delight Freedom Human Kind
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Forgiveness Injury Wrong
They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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Authority Better General Man Opinion Understand
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Build Destroy
The conscience of a people is their power.
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Conscience People Power

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