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Repentance is but want of power to sin.

John Dryden

When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Ideas Nature Pleasure View
To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Common Death Devil Evil
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Authors Enthusiasm Expectation Truth
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
They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Happiness Live
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Courage Growth Heart
Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Beware Man Patience
A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Himself Man Paradise Sin Sorrow Woman
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
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Best Kind Ourselves Steal
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Hold Last Sweet
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Act Generous Greatness Pleasure Secret
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

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

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