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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

Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Beginning Growth Small
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Myself Poverty Soul Virtue Warm
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Forgiveness Injury Wrong
All heiresses are beautiful.
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Beautiful One Liner
Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Charge Mindset Revenge Sharp
Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Life Past
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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Anger Cherish Disappear Forget
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Fools One Liner Patriot
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Build Destroy
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Grace Strength
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Devotion Ignorance Mom Myself Yourself
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
War is the trade of kings.
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King One Liner Trade War
But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Desire Hands Nature Sick Sin
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
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Infidelity Mysterious Thinking
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Authors Enthusiasm Expectation Truth
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Common Death Devil Evil
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Hate Home Name Peace Soul
A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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Conscience Goodness Image Man Reflection Water

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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