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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.

John Dryden

It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Fortune Madness Prudence Rule
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
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
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Himself Man Paradise Sin Sorrow Woman
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Death Dreams Heaven Herself Life Success
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Elegant Flower Heaven Western
And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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Corruption Faith Freedom Need Scripture Sufficient
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Discover Future Glide Haste Length Past
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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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Bold Fear Greatness Mask

And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.

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