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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.

John Dryden

Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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Lost Mild Rage Sea Wind
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Believe Children Direction Education Lost Man
Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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Creation Earth Eyes Man Mom Sky Soft
Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Equality Life Live Right
Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Death Finding Love Time Way
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Degree River Sea
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Desire God Greatness Sin
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Advise Sick
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
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation
Hushed as midnight silence.
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One Liner Silence

Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.

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