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They that possess the prince possess the laws.

John Dryden

Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Dreams Forget Forward Mindset Time
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Build Destroy
Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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Eyes Feeling Ourselves Soul Tender Togetherness Touch
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Believe Faith Grace Reward See Strength
The winds are out of breath.
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Breathe Wind
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Genius Gift Happy Nature
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Believe Children Direction Education Lost Man
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Grace Strength
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
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 trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Excitement Loud
Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Criticism Revenge Writing
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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Boast Born Death End Journey Live Man Place Sincere
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Music Passion Raise
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Friendship Tears
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
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True

They that possess the prince possess the laws.

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