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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
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Crime Murder Punishment Time
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Action Essence Fiction Human Poetry Story
If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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God Goodness Love Thinking World
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Bold Fear Greatness Mask
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Devotion Ignorance Mom Myself Yourself
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
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
War is the trade of kings.
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King One Liner Trade War
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Lying Myself Wife
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
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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Better Health Himself Man Work
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
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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Estate Himself Misery Money Sell Soul
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Grace Strength
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
At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Hate Home Name Peace Soul
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Freedom Man Nature Run Savage Wild
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Common Death Devil Evil
Hushed as midnight silence.
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One Liner Silence

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

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