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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.

John Dryden

I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Brown Easy Light Night
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Greatness Treason Trust
A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
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Character Kind Man Natural Painting Person Poetry
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.
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Growth Myself Reputation Young
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Elegant Flower Heaven Western
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Genius Gift Happy Nature
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Fortune Madness Prudence Rule
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Believe Easy Invisible Mindset Unknown
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Life Man Origin Virtue Word
Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Defense Law Nature
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Live Lost Luxury People Public
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Best Silence Suffering Time
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince

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