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Sweet is pleasure after pain.

John Dryden

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
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
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Age Genius Kind Live Study Universe
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
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
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Fools One Liner Patriot
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection
Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Defense Law Nature
Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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Admire Drama Father Himself Home Poet Writing
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Genius Gift Happy Nature
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
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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Ideas Nature Pleasure View
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Brave Chance Man Subject
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Greatness Treason Trust

Sweet is pleasure after pain.

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