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Pity melts the mind to love.

John Dryden

The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Brave Chance Man Subject
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Devotion Ignorance Mom Myself Yourself
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
The conscience of a people is their power.
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Conscience People Power
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Conversation One Liner Soul
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Adversity Grief Misery Wicket
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Fake King Necessary Ruin True
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store
Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Favorite Heaven Man
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
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
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Cheap Death Fame
Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Hate Love Politics
If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Judgement People Thinking Understand Wrong
If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Live Past Remember Thankful

Pity melts the mind to love.

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