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All empire is no more than power in trust.

John Dryden

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Death Fear Known
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Forgiveness Injury Wrong
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Hold Last Sweet
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
By education most have been misled.
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Direction Education One Liner
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation
The winds are out of breath.
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Breathe Wind
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Adversity Grief Misery Wicket
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
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
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Life Past
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Bold Fear Greatness Mask

All empire is no more than power in trust.

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