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Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

John Dryden

Hushed as midnight silence.
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One Liner Silence
Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Charge Mindset Revenge Sharp
The conscience of a people is their power.
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Conscience People Power
I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Fight Myself Rise Wound
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Criticism Revenge Writing
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Music Passion Raise
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Infidelity Mysterious Thinking
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Care Destroy Happiness Man Thinking
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Affection Goodness Grace Principal
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Pain Pleasure Sweet
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Advise Sick
Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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Choice Delight Evil Lying Object Truth Understand

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