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To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.

John Dryden

Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Character Habit Inspirational Nature Ourselves
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Greatness Treason Trust
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Lying Myself Wife
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Children Crave Growth Man
And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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Corruption Faith Freedom Need Scripture Sufficient
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Devotion Ignorance Mom Myself Yourself
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Adventure First Forgiveness Reason Rule
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
For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Bound Drink Food Live Power Thinking

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