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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.

John Dryden

And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Fragile Love Mindset
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
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
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Death Finding Love Time Way
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Care Destroy Happiness Man Thinking
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Hold Last Sweet
Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Future Heart State Tongue Tremble
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Errors Flow Gratitude Surface
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Nature Obligation Response Trust

At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.

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