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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

John Dryden

An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
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
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Fake King Necessary Ruin True
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
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Alone Day Happiness Live Man Myself Secure Worst
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Beginning Growth Small
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
JOHN DRYDEN

Better Health Himself Man Work
Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Equality Life Live Right
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Dance Foot Poetry
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Best Silence Suffering Time
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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Best Kind Ourselves Steal

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