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A happy genius is the gift of nature.

John Dryden

Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
JOHN DRYDEN

Live Myself Past Power Rain Shine Worst
If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Live Past Remember Thankful
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Beginning Growth Small
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Bound Habit Slave Vice
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Hold Last Sweet
War is the trade of kings.
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King One Liner Trade War
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Grace Strength
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Action Beautiful Fall Grace Himself People Wrong Youth
He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Thinking Unknown Whistle

A happy genius is the gift of nature.

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