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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

John Dryden

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Different Fools Love Mindset Wisdom
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
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Brave Chance Man Subject
But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Desire Hands Nature Sick Sin
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
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
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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Lost Mild Rage Sea Wind
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Fake King Necessary Ruin True
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Advise Sick
Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Age Night Old Ourselves

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