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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?

John Dryden

But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Numerous Talk Thinking
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Race Run Swift Time
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
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Creation Dew Greatness Himself Morning Spirit
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
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Beautiful Language Oneself
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Evidence Passion Reason Rule Weakness
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
All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Empire Power Trust
War is the trade of kings.
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King One Liner Trade War
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Adversity Grief Misery Wicket
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
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Conversation One Liner Soul
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Greatness Treason Trust

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