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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

They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave
By education most have been misled.
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Direction Education One Liner
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
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Block Government Time
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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Heaven Praise Prayer Promise
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
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Devotion Ignorance Mom Myself Yourself
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Gift Heaven Liberty Life Love
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Fight King Mad Man Praise

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

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