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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.

John Dryden

Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Crime Murder Punishment Time
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Authors Enthusiasm Expectation Truth
Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
JOHN DRYDEN

Friendship Love Price Time Treat
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Cheating Favor Fools Hope Life
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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One Liner Power Regret Sin
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
Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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Eyes Feeling Ourselves Soul Tender Togetherness Touch
Pity melts the mind to love.
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Love Mindset Pity
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
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
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Delight Freedom Human Kind

I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.

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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.

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