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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.

John Dryden

But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Brave Deserve Fair
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Fragile Love Mindset
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
Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Defense Law Nature
Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Friendship Tears
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
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Devotion Ignorance Mom Myself Yourself
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word
They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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Authority Better General Man Opinion Understand
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Cheating Favor Fools Hope Life
The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Excitement Loud

Old age creeps on us where we think it night.

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