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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.

John Dryden

Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Criticism Revenge Writing
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Hold Last Sweet
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Lying Myself Wife
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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Continue End Goodness Grace Principal Virtue
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Art Nature Teaching
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Freedom Subject Thrive
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Future Heart State Tongue Tremble
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
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Conversation One Liner Soul
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Age Writing
By education most have been misled.
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Direction Education One Liner
There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Advantage Modesty Proud
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
JOHN DRYDEN

Enemy Forgiveness Greatness Injury Power Soul Time

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