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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

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Alone Day Happiness Live Man Myself Secure Worst
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Conversation One Liner Soul
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Goodness Myself Talk Truth
Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Courage Growth Heart
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Brown Easy Light Night
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
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
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Age Distant Force Herself Nature Poet
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Grace Strength
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Bold Fear Greatness Mask
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
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools

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

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