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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.

John Dryden

By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Believe Children Direction Education Lost Man
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Action Essence Fiction Human Poetry Story
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Bold Fear Greatness Mask
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
JOHN DRYDEN

Freedom Man Nature Run Savage Wild
Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
JOHN DRYDEN

Death Finding Love Time Way
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Favorite Heaven Man
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Best Silence Suffering Time
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
JOHN DRYDEN

Pain Pleasure Sweet
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
JOHN DRYDEN

Chance Hot Iron Leisure
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
JOHN DRYDEN

Conversation One Liner Soul
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
JOHN DRYDEN

Block Government Time
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
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
JOHN DRYDEN

Divine Faculty Force God Kind Man Philosophy

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