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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.

John Dryden

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
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
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
Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Death Finding Love Time Way
There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Advantage Modesty Proud
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
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
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Crime Murder Punishment Time
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Music Passion Raise
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Freedom Subject Thrive
Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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Lost Mild Rage Sea Wind
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Myself Old Power Remember
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Dreams Forget Forward Mindset Time

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.

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