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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.

John Dryden

He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Errors Flow Gratitude Surface
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Infidelity Mysterious Thinking
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Myself Poverty Soul Virtue Warm
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Character Habit Inspirational Nature Ourselves
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Age Genius Kind Live Study Universe
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
A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Cheating Man Passion Reason Truth
Love is love’s reward.
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Love One Liner Reward
Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Crime Murder Punishment Time
While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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Day Eyes Round Shade Sight Soul
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
Pity melts the mind to love.
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Love Mindset Pity
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst

There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.

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