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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

Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Future Heart State Tongue Tremble
All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Empire Power Trust
Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Equality Life Live Right
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
The winds are out of breath.
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Breathe Wind
Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Crime Murder Punishment Time
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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Follow Natural Obligation Paint Rock Sculptor
Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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Emotion Enthusiasm Height Imagination Paint Poet Soul
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
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
But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Desire Hands Nature Sick Sin
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Evidence Passion Reason Rule Weakness
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Brown Easy Light Night
For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Design God Mindset Ruin
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
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Cheating Favor Fools Hope Life
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Live Lost Luxury People Public
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Greatness Treason Trust
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Music Passion Raise
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Race Run Swift Time
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Numerous Talk Thinking

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