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Pity melts the mind to love.

John Dryden

Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Degree River Sea
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Pain Pleasure Sweet
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Authors Enthusiasm Expectation Truth
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
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
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
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Freedom Subject Thrive
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Conversation One Liner Soul
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Race Run Swift Time
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Build Destroy

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