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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.

John Dryden

It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Fortune Madness Prudence Rule
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Forgiveness Injury Wrong
A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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Conscience Goodness Image Man Reflection Water
Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Action Beautiful Fall Grace Himself People Wrong Youth
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Fight Myself Rise Wound
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Author Himself Poet Theft Victory
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Equality Life Live Right
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Delight Freedom Human Kind
Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Himself Loss See Vice
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
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Fly Joy Youth
Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Beware Man Patience
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Death End Grave Kind Mourn

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