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God never made his work for man to mend.

John Dryden

We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Adversity Grief Misery Wicket
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Discover Future Glide Haste Length Past
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
Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Fury Man Patience
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Character Habit Inspirational Nature Ourselves
For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Design God Mindset Ruin
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Delight Freedom Human Kind
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Race Run Swift Time
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
Love is love’s reward.
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Love One Liner Reward
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Grace Strength
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Goodness Ignorance Nature Reason Right World

God never made his work for man to mend.

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