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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

John Dryden

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Bold Fear Greatness Mask
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
If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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God Goodness Love Thinking World
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Grace Strength
But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Cure Love
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Benefit Fate Pleasure Relate Sorrow Time
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Bound Habit Slave Vice
Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Crime Oblivion
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Face Need See Truth
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection
Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Action Beautiful Fall Grace Himself People Wrong Youth
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Art Nature Teaching
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

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