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

John Dryden

Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Life Man Origin Virtue Word
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Art Nature Teaching
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
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Fake Happiness Thinking Trust
Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Hate Love Politics
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Cheating Favor Fools Hope Life
Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Fury Man Patience
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Beginning Growth Small
There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Gift Modesty Proud Time

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