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All authors to their own defects are blind.

John Dryden

But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Desire Hands Nature Sick Sin
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
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Brown Easy Light Night
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Friendship Tears
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.
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Conscience Goodness Image Man Reflection Water
The conscience of a people is their power.
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Conscience People Power
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store
When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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Cheat Day False Fools Life
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Advantage Modesty Proud
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
JOHN DRYDEN

Block Government Time
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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Estate Himself Misery Money Sell Soul
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Fragile Love Mindset
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Music Passion Raise
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search

All authors to their own defects are blind.

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