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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.

John Dryden

Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
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
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
Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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Eagle Fools Mount Myself Wings
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Affection Goodness Grace Principal
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Lying Myself Wife
Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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Empty Enough Fortune Myself Soul
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Bold Fear Greatness Mask
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
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

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