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

John Dryden

If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Evidence Passion Reason Rule Weakness
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Adventure First Forgiveness Reason Rule
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
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
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad
Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Crime Murder Punishment Time
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
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Plate Time Writing
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Death End Grave Kind Mourn
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Cheating Favor Fools Hope Life
Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Action Beautiful Fall Grace Himself People Wrong Youth
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Nature Obligation Response Trust

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