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There is a proud modesty in merit.

John Dryden

Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Age Genius Kind Live Study Universe
Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Equality Life Live Right
They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Happiness Live
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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Better Health Himself Man Work
All heiresses are beautiful.
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Beautiful One Liner
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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Himself Judgement Praise Theme
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Delight Freedom Human Kind
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Pain Pleasure Sweet
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Errors Flow Gratitude Surface
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Age Distant Force Herself Nature Poet
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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Continue End Goodness Grace Principal Virtue

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