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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

John Dryden

The conscience of a people is their power.
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Conscience People Power
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Bold Fear Greatness Mask
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Freedom Subject Thrive
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Infidelity Mysterious Thinking
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
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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Growth Myself Reputation Young
By education most have been misled.
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Direction Education One Liner
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
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
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Cheating Favor Fools Hope Life
But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Desire Hands Nature Sick Sin
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Genius Gift Happy Nature
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Best Kind Ourselves Steal

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