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They first condemn that first advised the ill.

John Dryden

Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Goodness Ignorance Nature Reason Right World
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
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Dance Foot Poetry
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Hold Last Sweet
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Act Generous Greatness Pleasure Secret
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Plate Time Writing
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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Freedom Man Nature Run Savage Wild
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Forgiveness Injury Wrong
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Fight King Mad Man Praise
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
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
Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Crime Murder Punishment Time

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