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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.

John Dryden

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
Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Equality Life Live Right
If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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Honor Judgement Man Member Mistake Order
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
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
Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Crime Oblivion
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Cheating Favor Fools Hope Life
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
Pity melts the mind to love.
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Love Mindset Pity
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Conversation One Liner Soul
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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Growth Myself Reputation Young
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Death Fear Known
They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Happiness Live
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner

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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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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