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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.

John Dryden

Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Age Distant Force Herself Nature Poet
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
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Adversity Grief Misery Wicket
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Gift Heaven Liberty Life 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
A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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Conscience Goodness Image Man Reflection Water
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Delight Freedom Human Kind
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Beginning Growth Small
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Face Need See Truth
For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Believe Conquer
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Fury Man Patience
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Live Lost Luxury People Public

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