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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.

John Dryden

Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Beware Man Patience
Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Himself Loss See Vice
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Dew Precious Pursue Track Young
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Believe Faith Grace Reward See Strength
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
JOHN DRYDEN

Life Man Origin Virtue Word
Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Death Finding Love Time Way
Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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Admire Drama Father Himself Home Poet Writing
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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Corruption Faith Freedom Need Scripture Sufficient
There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Gift Modesty Proud Time

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