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

John Dryden

Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Future Heart State Tongue Tremble
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Act Generous Greatness Pleasure Secret
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Age Distant Force Herself Nature Poet
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due
Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Discover Future Glide Haste Length Past
There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Advantage Modesty Proud
For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Bound Drink Food Live Power Thinking
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Benefit Fate Pleasure Relate Sorrow Time

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

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