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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

John Dryden

Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Goodness Ignorance Nature Reason Right World
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Evidence Passion Reason Rule Weakness
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Infidelity Mysterious Thinking
There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Gift Modesty Proud Time
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Dreams Forget Forward Mindset Time
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering
If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Live Past Remember Thankful
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Live Lost Luxury People Public
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

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