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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

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
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
They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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Authority Better General Man Opinion Understand
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Grace Strength
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools
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
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
Order is the greatest grace.
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Greatness One Liner Order Peace
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Bound Habit Slave Vice
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Pain Pleasure Sweet
All heiresses are beautiful.
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Beautiful One Liner
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Himself Scene
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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Boast Born Death End Journey Live Man Place Sincere

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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