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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.

John Dryden

Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Age Genius Kind Live Study Universe
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Beginning Growth Small
Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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Choice Delight Evil Lying Object Truth Understand
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Ideas Nature Pleasure View
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Brown Easy Light Night
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature
Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Beware Man Patience
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Character Habit Inspirational Nature Ourselves
Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
JOHN DRYDEN

Friendship Tears

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