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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.

John Dryden

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
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
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Brave Chance Man Subject
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
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Genius Gift Happy Nature
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
Love is love’s reward.
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Love One Liner Reward
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
Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Hate Love Politics
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
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Dreams Forget Forward Mindset Time
Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Discover Future Glide Haste Length Past
Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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Emotion Enthusiasm Height Imagination Paint Poet Soul
A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
JOHN DRYDEN

Conscience Goodness Image Man Reflection Water

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