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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.

John Dryden

Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Dance Foot Poetry
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
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
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Pain Pleasure Sweet
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Fragile Love Mindset
But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Cure Love
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
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Fortune Madness Prudence Rule
And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
JOHN DRYDEN

Corruption Faith Freedom Need Scripture Sufficient
Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Crime Murder Punishment Time
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
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Beautiful Dangerous Surface Way
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
JOHN DRYDEN

Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth

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