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None but the brave deserve the fair.

John Dryden

Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Goodness Ignorance Nature Reason Right World
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Himself Scene
War is the trade of kings.
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King One Liner Trade War
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Beautiful Language Oneself
By education most have been misled.
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Direction Education One Liner
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Believe Conquer
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Block Government Time
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Bound Habit Slave Vice

None but the brave deserve the fair.

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