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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.

John Dryden

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
Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Crime Murder Punishment Time
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
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
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Desire God Greatness Sin
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
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Freedom Man Nature Run Savage Wild
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
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
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
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
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, 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
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Beginning Growth Small

Among our crimes oblivion may be set.

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