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

John Dryden

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.
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Better Health Himself Man Work
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Care Destroy Happiness Man Thinking
All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Empire Power Trust
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Live Lost Luxury People Public
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Dance Foot Poetry
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Beautiful Language Oneself
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
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Best Silence Suffering Time
Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Defense Law Nature
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure

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