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John Dryden

A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Himself Man Paradise Sin Sorrow Woman
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
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
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Character Habit Inspirational Nature Ourselves
Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Goodness Ignorance Nature Reason Right World
They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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Authority Better General Man Opinion Understand
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Best Silence Suffering Time
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Desire God Greatness Sin
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Music Passion Raise
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
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Hold Last Sweet
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Death Fear Known
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
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

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