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

John Dryden

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
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
Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Crime Oblivion
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
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
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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Continue End Goodness Grace Principal Virtue
Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Goodness Ignorance Nature Reason Right World
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Fight King Mad Man Praise
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering
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
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
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Best Give Up Knowledge Nature Production True
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Children Crave Growth Man
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Build Destroy
At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Hate Home Name Peace Soul
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
Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Equality Life Live Right
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature
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
Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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Eagle Fools Mount Myself Wings
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
War is the trade of kings.
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King One Liner Trade War
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
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Live Myself Past Power Rain Shine Worst
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Forgiveness Injury Wrong
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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Action Beautiful Fall Grace Himself People Wrong Youth

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