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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.

John Dryden

Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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Better Health Himself Man Work
Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Goodness Ignorance Nature Reason Right World
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
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
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Desire God Greatness Sin
Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Crime Oblivion
A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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Conscience Goodness Image Man Reflection Water
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Best Silence Suffering Time
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave
Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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Himself Judgement Praise Theme
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue

Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.

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