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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.

John Dryden

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
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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Lost Mild Rage Sea Wind
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Author Himself Poet Theft Victory
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Ideas Nature Pleasure View
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
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
If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Live Past Remember Thankful
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Age Writing
The winds are out of breath.
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Breathe Wind
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War
Hushed as midnight silence.
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One Liner Silence
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
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Fake King Necessary Ruin True

And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.

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