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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.

John Dryden

Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Cheap Death Fame
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Fools One Liner Patriot
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Dance Foot Poetry
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Criticism Revenge Writing
Love is love’s reward.
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Love One Liner Reward
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
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
Hushed as midnight silence.
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One Liner Silence
Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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Himself Judgement Praise Theme
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Courage Growth Heart
A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Himself Man Paradise Sin Sorrow Woman
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Myself Old Power Remember
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Divine Faculty Force God Kind Man Philosophy
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Greatness Treason Trust
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Instrument Laughter Man Rate
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Believe Faith Grace Reward See Strength
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
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

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.

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