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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.

John Dryden

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
They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Happiness Live
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
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Different Fools Love Mindset Wisdom
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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Growth Myself Reputation Young
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Face Need See Truth
Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Favorite Heaven Man
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride
Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Crime Oblivion
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Grace Strength
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Brave Deserve Fair
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Age Writing
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place

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