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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.

John Dryden

Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Instrument Laughter Man Rate
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Adventure First Forgiveness Reason Rule
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Action Beautiful Fall Grace Himself People Wrong Youth
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
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Benefit Fate Pleasure Relate Sorrow Time
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
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Greatness Treason Trust
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
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Bold Fear Greatness Mask
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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Corruption Faith Freedom Need Scripture Sufficient
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Affection Goodness Grace Principal
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Pain Pleasure Sweet
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
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
A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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Conscience Goodness Image Man Reflection Water
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Goodness Myself Talk Truth
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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Growth Myself Reputation Young

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