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

John Dryden

Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Lying Myself Wife
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation
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
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Delight Freedom Human Kind
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Age Empty Experience Known Start World
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Desire God Greatness Sin
If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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Honor Judgement Man Member Mistake Order
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Bound Habit Slave Vice
Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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Choice Delight Evil Lying Object Truth Understand
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Finite Grasp Infinity
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
Pity melts the mind to love.
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Love Mindset Pity

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

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