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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.

John Dryden

God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Music Passion Raise
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Act Generous Greatness Pleasure Secret
If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Live Past Remember Thankful
Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Age Night Old Ourselves
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
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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Follow Natural Obligation Paint Rock Sculptor
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Fight King Mad Man Praise
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Age Writing
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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Anger Cherish Disappear Forget
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
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Degree River Sea

Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.

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