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All empire is no more than power in trust.

John Dryden

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Bold Fear Greatness Mask
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Himself Master Secret Servant Trust
Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Nature Obligation Response Trust
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Believe Children Direction Education Lost Man
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Infidelity Mysterious Thinking
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Degree River Sea
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Devotion Ignorance Mom Myself Yourself
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Freedom Subject Thrive
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Fly Joy Youth
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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Anger Cherish Disappear Forget
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Alone Day Happiness Live Man Myself Secure Worst

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