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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.

John Dryden

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Authors Enthusiasm Expectation Truth
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Desire God Greatness Sin
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
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
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Plate Time Writing
War is the trade of kings.
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King One Liner Trade War
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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Anger Cherish Disappear Forget
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
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
Hushed as midnight silence.
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One Liner Silence
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Common Death Devil Evil
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
JOHN DRYDEN

Better Health Himself Man Work

At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.

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