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The conscience of a people is their power.

John Dryden

Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Errors Flow Gratitude Surface
Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Future Heart State Tongue Tremble
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Age Genius Kind Live Study Universe
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Build Destroy
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Believe Easy Invisible Mindset Unknown
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Character Habit Inspirational Nature Ourselves
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Music Passion Raise
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Fragile Love Mindset
Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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Emotion Enthusiasm Height Imagination Paint Poet Soul
At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Hate Home Name Peace Soul
Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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Friendship Love Price Time Treat
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Gift Heaven Liberty Life Love

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