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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.

John Dryden

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad
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
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Beautiful Language Oneself
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Action Essence Fiction Human Poetry Story
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Best Silence Suffering Time
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
A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Cheating Man Passion Reason Truth
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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Fair Fate Myself Possession Rain Shine Time
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Brave Deserve Fair
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Conversation One Liner Soul
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Live Past Remember Thankful
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Delight Freedom Human Kind

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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