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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

John Dryden

At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Hate Home Name Peace Soul
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Himself Scene
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
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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Heaven Praise Prayer Promise
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
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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Creation Earth Eyes Man Mom Sky Soft
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Death End Grave Kind Mourn
But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Cure Love
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Empire Power Trust
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
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

Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

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