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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.

John Dryden

Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Defense Law Nature
But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Cure Love
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Hold Last Sweet
None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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Hope Life Live Pleasure Run Thinking
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
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Death End Grave Kind Mourn
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.
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Live Myself Past Power Rain Shine Worst
For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Believe Conquer
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
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
Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Charge Mindset Revenge Sharp
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Believe Easy Invisible Mindset Unknown
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Evidence Passion Reason Rule Weakness
Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Nature Obligation Response Trust
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Instrument Laughter Man Rate
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
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Divine Faculty Force God Kind Man Philosophy
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Brown Easy Light Night
When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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Cheat Day False Fools Life
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Fools One Liner Patriot

When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.

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