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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

John Dryden

A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Cheating Man Passion Reason Truth
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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Corruption Faith Freedom Need Scripture Sufficient
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Divine Faculty Force God Kind Man Philosophy
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Best Silence Suffering Time
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Best Kind Ourselves Steal
None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Brave Deserve Fair
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Excitement Loud
He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Thinking Unknown Whistle
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering
The conscience of a people is their power.
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Conscience People Power
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

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