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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

John Dryden

Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Enemy Forgiveness Greatness Injury Power Soul Time
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Brave Chance Man Subject
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
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
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
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
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Author Himself Poet Theft Victory
Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Himself Loss See Vice
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
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
The conscience of a people is their power.
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Conscience People Power
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Race Run Swift Time
Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Age Night Old Ourselves

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