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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

John Dryden

Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Life Past
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War
If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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God Goodness Love Thinking World
Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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Empty Enough Fortune Myself Soul
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
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
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store
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
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word
War is the trade of kings.
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King One Liner Trade War
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Pain Pleasure Sweet
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
Love is love’s reward.
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Love One Liner Reward

Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

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