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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.

John Dryden

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
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Friendship Tears
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Glitter Gold
Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Nature Obligation Response Trust
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Hold Last Sweet
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 bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Brave Chance Man Subject
A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
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Character Kind Man Natural Painting Person Poetry
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Gift Heaven Liberty Life Love
What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Dew Precious Pursue Track Young
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Genius Gift Happy Nature
Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
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Best Give Up Knowledge Nature Production True
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Himself Master Secret Servant Trust
Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Action Beautiful Fall Grace Himself People Wrong Youth
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Errors Flow Gratitude Surface
War is the trade of kings.
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King One Liner Trade War
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.
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Choice Delight Evil Lying Object Truth Understand
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
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
But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Cure Love
Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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Eyes Feeling Ourselves Soul Tender Togetherness Touch
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Devotion Ignorance Mom Myself Yourself

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