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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.

John Dryden

If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Bound Habit Slave Vice
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
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
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Freedom Man Nature Run Savage Wild
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
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Race Run Swift Time
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Fake King Necessary Ruin True
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
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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Fight Myself Rise Wound
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Advise Sick
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Myself Old Power Remember
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Forgiveness Injury Wrong
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Beginning Growth Small

Secret guilt is by silence revealed.

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