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Sweet is pleasure after pain.

John Dryden

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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Eagle Fools Mount Myself Wings
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Empire Power Trust
Hushed as midnight silence.
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One Liner Silence
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
JOHN DRYDEN

Brave Despair Happiness
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Numerous Talk Thinking
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Genius Gift Happy Nature
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
JOHN DRYDEN

Anger Cherish Disappear Forget
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature
Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Life Past
Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Favorite Heaven Man
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
JOHN DRYDEN

Better Health Himself Man Work

Sweet is pleasure after pain.

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