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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

John Dryden

Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Freedom Man Nature Run Savage Wild
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
JOHN DRYDEN

Cheating Favor Fools Hope Life
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Believe Easy Invisible Mindset Unknown
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
JOHN DRYDEN

Growth Myself Reputation Young
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Excitement Loud
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Face Need See Truth
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
Order is the greatest grace.
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Greatness One Liner Order Peace

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

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