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

John Dryden

Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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Friendship Love Price Time Treat
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.
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Better Health Himself Man Work
Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Action Beautiful Fall Grace Himself People Wrong Youth
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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Day Eyes Round Shade Sight Soul
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Brave Chance Man Subject
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Art Nature Teaching
At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Hate Home Name Peace Soul
The winds are out of breath.
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Breathe Wind
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Believe Faith Grace Reward See Strength
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Divine Faculty Force God Kind Man Philosophy
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Race Run Swift Time
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
JOHN DRYDEN

Creation Dew Greatness Himself Morning Spirit

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

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