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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

Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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Creation Earth Eyes Man Mom Sky Soft
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
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
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
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
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Act Generous Greatness Pleasure Secret
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Myself Old Power Remember
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Goodness Myself Talk Truth
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Art Nature Teaching
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Death Fear Known
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
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
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

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