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The bravest men are subject most to chance.

John Dryden

Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave
The winds are out of breath.
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Breathe Wind
At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Hate Home Name Peace Soul
But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Cure Love
Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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Choice Delight Evil Lying Object Truth Understand
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Hold Last Sweet
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Degree River Sea
He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Thinking Unknown Whistle
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Authors Enthusiasm Expectation Truth
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Fools One Liner Patriot
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Lying Myself Wife
Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Nature Obligation Response Trust
War is the trade of kings.
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King One Liner Trade War
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection

The bravest men are subject most to chance.

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