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

John Dryden

Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Hold Last Sweet
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Fake King Necessary Ruin True
The conscience of a people is their power.
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Conscience People Power
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Ideas Nature Pleasure View
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
Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Action Beautiful Fall Grace Himself People Wrong Youth
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
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Himself Master Secret Servant Trust
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Discover Future Glide Haste Length Past
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
JOHN DRYDEN

Freedom Subject Thrive
There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
JOHN DRYDEN

Gift Modesty Proud Time
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Cheap Death Fame
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Live Lost Luxury People Public
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
JOHN DRYDEN

Care Destroy Happiness Man Thinking
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
JOHN DRYDEN

Brave Despair Happiness

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