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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.

John Dryden

Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Gift Modesty Proud Time
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
For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Design God Mindset Ruin
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Myself Old Power Remember
For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Bound Drink Food Live Power Thinking
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Affection Goodness Grace Principal
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Greatness Treason Trust
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Discover Future Glide Haste Length Past
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
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
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Brown Easy Light Night
Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
JOHN DRYDEN

Choice Delight Evil Lying Object Truth Understand

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