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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.

John Dryden

Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Judgement People Thinking Understand Wrong
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Fake King Necessary Ruin True
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Genius Gift Happy Nature
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Bold Fear Greatness Mask
There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Gift Modesty Proud Time
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Conversation One Liner Soul
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
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Plate Time Writing
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Action Essence Fiction Human Poetry Story
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
JOHN DRYDEN

Race Run Swift Time

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