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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.

John Dryden

Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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Empty Enough Fortune Myself Soul
Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Defense Law Nature
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Advise Sick
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad
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
For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Bound Drink Food Live Power Thinking
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Genius Gift Happy Nature
If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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God Goodness Love Thinking World
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
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
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Delight Freedom Human Kind
If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Judgement People Thinking Understand Wrong
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Authors Enthusiasm Expectation Truth

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