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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.

John Dryden

Repentance is but want of power to sin.
JOHN DRYDEN

One Liner Power Regret Sin
Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Life Past
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
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
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Creation Dew Greatness Himself Morning Spirit
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
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
For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Believe Conquer
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Death Dreams Heaven Herself Life Success
Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Hate Love Politics
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Author Himself Poet Theft Victory
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Children Crave Growth Man
Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
JOHN DRYDEN

Choice Delight Evil Lying Object Truth Understand

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