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

John Dryden

Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Fake Happiness Thinking Trust
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
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
What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Dew Precious Pursue Track Young
Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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Creation Earth Eyes Man Mom Sky Soft
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due
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
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Beginning Growth Small
Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Criticism Revenge Writing
He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Thinking Unknown Whistle
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Forgiveness Injury Wrong
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Myself Old Power Remember
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave
Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Discover Future Glide Haste Length Past
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Genius Gift Happy Nature
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Desire Hands Nature Sick Sin
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Grace Strength
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Desire God Greatness Sin
Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Defense Law Nature
None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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Hope Life Live Pleasure Run Thinking
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Action Essence Fiction Human Poetry Story
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

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

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