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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.

John Dryden

Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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Himself Judgement Praise Theme
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Glitter Gold
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Evidence Passion Reason Rule Weakness
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Lying Myself Wife
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
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
Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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Friendship Love Price Time Treat
None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Brave Deserve Fair
Order is the greatest grace.
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Greatness One Liner Order Peace
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Bound Habit Slave Vice
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
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Fragile Love Mindset
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief

The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.

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