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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.

John Dryden

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Fight King Mad Man Praise
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
Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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Heaven Praise Prayer Promise
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Glitter Gold
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Action Essence Fiction Human Poetry Story
I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fight Myself Rise Wound
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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Empty Enough Fortune Myself Soul
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Fake Happiness Thinking Trust
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
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

I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.

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