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Honor is but an empty bubble.

John Dryden

By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Believe Children Direction Education Lost Man
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Authors Enthusiasm Expectation Truth
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Cheap Death Fame
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Future Heart State Tongue Tremble
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
JOHN DRYDEN

Live Myself Past Power Rain Shine Worst
If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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Honor Judgement Man Member Mistake Order
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Bound Habit Slave Vice
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Beginning Growth Small
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Age Genius Kind Live Study Universe
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
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
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Benefit Fate Pleasure Relate Sorrow Time
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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Continue End Goodness Grace Principal Virtue
They live too long who happiness outlive.
JOHN DRYDEN

Happiness Live

Honor is but an empty bubble.

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