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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.

John Dryden

Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Courage Growth Heart
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
A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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Conscience Goodness Image Man Reflection Water
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Desire God Greatness Sin
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Hold Last Sweet
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Death End Grave Kind Mourn
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Beginning Growth Small
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
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
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Elegant Flower Heaven Western
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Glitter Gold
At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Hate Home Name Peace Soul
Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Hate Love Politics
A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Cheating Man Passion Reason Truth
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature
If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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Honor Judgement Man Member Mistake Order
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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Creation Earth Eyes Man Mom Sky Soft
Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Himself Loss See Vice
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Cheating Favor Fools Hope Life
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
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Pain Pleasure Sweet

The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.

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