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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.

John Dryden

Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Life Man Origin Virtue Word
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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One Liner Power Regret Sin
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
For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Bound Drink Food Live Power Thinking
If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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God Goodness Love Thinking World
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
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
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
By education most have been misled.
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Direction Education One Liner
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Affection Goodness Grace Principal
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Authors Enthusiasm Expectation Truth
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
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Live Lost Luxury People Public
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Art Nature Teaching
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Brown Easy Light Night

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