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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.

John Dryden

Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Common Death Devil Evil
But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Cure Love
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Creation Dew Greatness Himself Morning Spirit
They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Happiness Live
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Death Fear Known
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
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
A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Himself Man Paradise Sin Sorrow Woman
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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Follow Natural Obligation Paint Rock Sculptor
But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Desire Hands Nature Sick Sin
Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Equality Life Live Right

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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