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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.

John Dryden

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
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Music Passion Raise
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
JOHN DRYDEN

Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
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
I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Fight Myself Rise Wound
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Life Past
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Block Government Time
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Fake Happiness Thinking Trust
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Author Himself Poet Theft Victory
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Divine Faculty Force God Kind Man Philosophy
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
JOHN DRYDEN

Ideas Nature Pleasure View

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