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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.

John Dryden

We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Adversity Grief Misery Wicket
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Believe Faith Grace Reward See Strength
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Affection Goodness Grace Principal
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
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
So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Death Dreams Heaven Herself Life Success
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Enemy Forgiveness Greatness Injury Power Soul Time
Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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Boast Born Death End Journey Live Man Place Sincere
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
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride

Swift was the race, but short the time to run.

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