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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.

John Dryden

Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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Choice Delight Evil Lying Object Truth Understand
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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One Liner Power Regret Sin
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Fake Happiness Thinking Trust
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Age Empty Experience Known Start World
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
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
I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Fight Myself Rise Wound
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Freedom Subject Thrive
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
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
There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Advantage Modesty Proud

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