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Beware the fury of a patient man.

John Dryden

Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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Heaven Praise Prayer Promise
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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Hope Life Live Pleasure Run Thinking
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Alone Day Happiness Live Man Myself Secure Worst
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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Fair Fate Myself Possession Rain Shine Time
A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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Conscience Goodness Image Man Reflection Water
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Age Writing
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Hate Home Name Peace Soul

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