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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

John Dryden

Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Death End Grave Kind Mourn
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
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Age Alone Enough Reason Strong Walk Youth
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Greatness Treason Trust
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Conversation One Liner Soul
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
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
But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Cure Love
The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Excitement Loud
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Delight Freedom Human Kind
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
JOHN DRYDEN

Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth

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