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If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?

John Dryden

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
Love is love’s reward.
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Love One Liner Reward
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Desire God Greatness Sin
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Himself Scene
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Fake Happiness Thinking Trust
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Thinking Unknown Whistle
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Believe Easy Invisible Mindset Unknown
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
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
Order is the greatest grace.
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Greatness One Liner Order Peace
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Author Himself Poet Theft Victory
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Defense Law Nature
Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
JOHN DRYDEN

Courage Growth Heart

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