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

John Dryden

Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Himself Loss See Vice
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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Authority Better General Man Opinion Understand
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Life Man Origin Virtue Word
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Himself Scene
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
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
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
JOHN DRYDEN

Follow Natural Obligation Paint Rock Sculptor
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
JOHN DRYDEN

Growth Myself Reputation Young

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