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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.

John Dryden

Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Beware Man Patience
Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Crime Oblivion
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
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Brave Chance Man Subject
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Best Kind Ourselves Steal
But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Cure Love
The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Excitement Loud
All heiresses are beautiful.
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Beautiful One Liner
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Fury Man Patience
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
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Himself Scene
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect

Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.

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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.

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