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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

John Dryden

Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Favorite Heaven Man
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Instrument Laughter Man Rate
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Desire God Greatness Sin
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Age Alone Enough Reason Strong Walk Youth
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
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
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Block Government Time
Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Defense Law Nature
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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One Liner Power Regret Sin
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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Day Eyes Round Shade Sight Soul
Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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Lost Mild Rage Sea Wind
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
By education most have been misled.
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Direction Education One Liner

For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

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