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

John Dryden

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Degree River Sea
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Genius Gift Happy Nature
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
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
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
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
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Brave Chance Man Subject
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
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Freedom Subject Thrive
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Bold Fear Greatness Mask
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
Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Favorite Heaven Man
For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Bound Drink Food Live Power Thinking

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

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