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Silence in times of suffering is the best.

John Dryden

What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Dew Precious Pursue Track Young
But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Cure Love
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Himself Man Paradise Sin Sorrow Woman
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Adversity Grief Misery Wicket
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Enemy Forgiveness Greatness Injury Power Soul Time
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Fury Man Patience
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
None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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Hope Life Live Pleasure Run Thinking
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
All heiresses are beautiful.
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Beautiful One Liner
Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Action Beautiful Fall Grace Himself People Wrong Youth
Pity melts the mind to love.
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Love Mindset Pity
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Age Genius Kind Live Study Universe
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Block Government Time

Silence in times of suffering is the best.

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