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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.

John Dryden

Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Life Man Origin Virtue Word
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Creation Dew Greatness Himself Morning Spirit
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
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
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Action Essence Fiction Human Poetry Story
The winds are out of breath.
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Breathe Wind
Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Favorite Heaven Man
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word
None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Brave Deserve Fair

For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.

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