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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.

John Dryden

When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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Cheat Day False Fools Life
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Thinking Unknown Whistle
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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God Goodness Love Thinking World
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Cheap Death Fame
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Life Man Origin Virtue Word
So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Death Dreams Heaven Herself Life Success
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
The conscience of a people is their power.
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Conscience People Power
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
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
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Death End Grave Kind Mourn

Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.

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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.

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