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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.

John Dryden

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
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Judgement Praise Theme
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word
While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
JOHN DRYDEN

Day Eyes Round Shade Sight Soul
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
JOHN DRYDEN

Estate Himself Misery Money Sell Soul
They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
JOHN DRYDEN

Authority Better General Man Opinion Understand
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Dance Foot Poetry
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Art Nature Teaching
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Fortune Madness Prudence Rule
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
Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Hate Love Politics
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
God never made his work for man to mend.
JOHN DRYDEN

God Man Mend Work

I never saw any good that came of telling truth.

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