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John Dryden

But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
JOHN DRYDEN

Desire Hands Nature Sick Sin
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
JOHN DRYDEN

Face Need See Truth
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
JOHN DRYDEN

Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
Order is the greatest grace.
JOHN DRYDEN

Greatness One Liner Order Peace
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
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Man Paradise Sin Sorrow Woman
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
JOHN DRYDEN

Degree River Sea
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
JOHN DRYDEN

Happiness Kind Man Sadness
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Freedom Man Nature Run Savage Wild
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
JOHN DRYDEN

Act Honor Love Passion
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
JOHN DRYDEN

Performance Quick Slow

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

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