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By education most have been misled.

John Dryden

None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Fake King Necessary Ruin True
Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
JOHN DRYDEN

Criticism Revenge Writing
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
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Ideas Nature Pleasure View
Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Discover Future Glide Haste Length Past
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Best Silence Suffering Time
Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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Eagle Fools Mount Myself Wings
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word
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 love’s reward.
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Love One Liner Reward
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Art Nature Teaching
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
So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
JOHN DRYDEN

Death Dreams Heaven Herself Life Success

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