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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.

John Dryden

The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Affection Goodness Grace Principal
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Age Empty Experience Known Start World
Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Future Heart State Tongue Tremble
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Age Writing
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Enemy Forgiveness Greatness Injury Power Soul Time
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Believe Easy Invisible Mindset Unknown
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Build Destroy
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Numerous Talk Thinking
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect

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