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

John Dryden

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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Continue End Goodness Grace Principal Virtue
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Excitement Loud
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War
Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Courage Growth Heart
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Elegant Flower Heaven Western
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Age Genius Kind Live Study Universe
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Life Man Origin Virtue Word
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
None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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Finding Himself Imperfection Mistake Secret
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Bold Fear Greatness Mask
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Thinking Unknown Whistle
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Freedom Man Nature Run Savage Wild
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Believe Children Direction Education Lost Man
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Race Run Swift Time
Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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Heaven Praise Prayer Promise
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Death Fear Known
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Friendship Tears
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools
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

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

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