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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

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
None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Brave Deserve Fair
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
Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Goodness Ignorance Nature Reason Right World
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Fragile Love Mindset
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
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Live Past Remember Thankful
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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One Liner Power Regret Sin
By education most have been misled.
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Direction Education One Liner
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
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
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
JOHN DRYDEN

Ideas Nature Pleasure View

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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