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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

John Dryden

Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Age Writing
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Myself Poverty Soul Virtue Warm
Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Age Night Old Ourselves
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Genius Gift Happy Nature
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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One Liner Power Regret Sin
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Dreams Forget Forward Mindset Time
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Build Destroy
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Music Passion Raise
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
For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Believe Conquer
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
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
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Advise Sick
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Age Empty Experience Known Start World
The winds are out of breath.
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Breathe Wind
Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Defense Law Nature
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Bound Drink Food Live Power Thinking
There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Gift Modesty Proud Time

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

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