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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.

John Dryden

Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Genius Gift Happy Nature
Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Nature Obligation Response Trust
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
JOHN DRYDEN

Myself Old Power Remember
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
JOHN DRYDEN

Age Genius Kind Live Study Universe
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Magic Walk
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Adventure First Forgiveness Reason Rule
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Beautiful Language Oneself
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
JOHN DRYDEN

Equality Life Live Right
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
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
JOHN DRYDEN

Goodness Myself Talk Truth

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