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They that possess the prince possess the laws.

John Dryden

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Bold Fear Greatness Mask
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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Cheat Day False Fools Life
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Crime Murder Punishment Time
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Age Night Old Ourselves
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Freedom Subject Thrive
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Himself Master Secret Servant Trust
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave
There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Gift Modesty Proud Time
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering
A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Cheating Man Passion Reason Truth
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Adversity Grief Misery Wicket
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Age Writing
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise

They that possess the prince possess the laws.

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