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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

John Dryden

Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
JOHN DRYDEN

Death End Grave Kind Mourn
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Divine Faculty Force God Kind Man Philosophy
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Best Kind Ourselves Steal
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Courage Growth Heart
None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Brave Deserve Fair
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
JOHN DRYDEN

Live Myself Past Power Rain Shine Worst
Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Beware Man Patience
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Brown Easy Light Night
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Himself Master Secret Servant Trust
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Enemy Forgiveness Greatness Injury Power Soul Time
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Freedom Subject Thrive
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fresh Object Pity Sight

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