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Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

John Dryden

They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Advise Sick
Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Death Finding Love Time Way
Order is the greatest grace.
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Greatness One Liner Order Peace
Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
JOHN DRYDEN

Charge Mindset Revenge Sharp
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Gift Heaven Liberty Life Love
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
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
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Best Kind Ourselves Steal
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Goodness Myself Talk Truth
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due
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
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Numerous Talk Thinking
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
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature

Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

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Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

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