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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

John Dryden

Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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Friendship Love Price Time Treat
War is the trade of kings.
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King One Liner Trade War
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Defense Law Nature
Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Favorite Heaven Man
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Divine Faculty Force God Kind Man Philosophy
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Different Fools Love Mindset Wisdom
But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Cure Love
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Block Government Time
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave
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
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
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
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
The conscience of a people is their power.
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Conscience People Power
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
JOHN DRYDEN

Adversity Grief Misery Wicket

For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

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