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

John Dryden

Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Charge Mindset Revenge Sharp
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
The winds are out of breath.
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Breathe Wind
Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Courage Growth Heart
Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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Lost Mild Rage Sea Wind
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
The conscience of a people is their power.
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Conscience People Power
Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Nature Obligation Response Trust
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Act Generous Greatness Pleasure Secret
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Care Destroy Happiness Man Thinking
He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Thinking Unknown Whistle
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
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
Pity melts the mind to love.
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Love Mindset Pity
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Crime Oblivion
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Authors Enthusiasm Expectation Truth
If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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Honor Judgement Man Member Mistake Order
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
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Beautiful Dangerous Surface Way
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Block Government Time
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Fake King Necessary Ruin True
While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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Day Eyes Round Shade Sight Soul

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