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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

John Dryden

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
Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Future Heart State Tongue Tremble
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Ideas Nature Pleasure View
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Lying Myself Wife
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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One Liner Power Regret Sin
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Desire God Greatness Sin
By education most have been misled.
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Direction Education One Liner
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Beautiful Language Oneself
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Age Genius Kind Live Study Universe
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Beware Man Patience
Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Judgement Praise Theme
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

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