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

John Dryden

Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Enemy Forgiveness Greatness Injury Power Soul Time
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Beginning Growth Small
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Gift Heaven Liberty Life Love
A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Himself Man Paradise Sin Sorrow Woman
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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Friendship Love Price Time Treat
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Age Night Old Ourselves
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Goodness Myself Talk Truth
Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Friendship Tears
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Music Passion Raise
If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Judgement People Thinking Understand Wrong
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Face Need See Truth
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Favorite Heaven Man

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