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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.

John Dryden

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Face Need See Truth
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Affection Goodness Grace Principal
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Fragile Love Mindset
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Himself Master Secret Servant Trust
Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Beware Man Patience
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
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
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Music Passion Raise
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
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
Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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Choice Delight Evil Lying Object Truth Understand
Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
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Best Give Up Knowledge Nature Production True
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Brave Chance Man Subject
And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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Corruption Faith Freedom Need Scripture Sufficient
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
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
What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Dew Precious Pursue Track Young
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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Empire Power Trust
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
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
Pity melts the mind to love.
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Love Mindset Pity

Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.

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