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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.

John Dryden

Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Forgiveness Injury Wrong
None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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Finding Himself Imperfection Mistake Secret
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Care Destroy Happiness Man Thinking
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Life Past
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Fragile Love Mindset
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Infidelity Mysterious Thinking
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Believe Conquer
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Live Past Remember Thankful
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk

Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.

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