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Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.

John Dryden

Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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Growth Myself Reputation Young
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Music Passion Raise
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Best Silence Suffering Time
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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Age Empty Experience Known Start World
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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Continue End Goodness Grace Principal Virtue
While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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Day Eyes Round Shade Sight Soul
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
JOHN DRYDEN

Bitter Poem Satire
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Enemy Forgiveness Greatness Injury Power Soul Time
For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Design God Mindset Ruin
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Numerous Talk Thinking
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence

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