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Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

John Dryden

Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fight King Mad Man Praise
A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
JOHN DRYDEN

Conscience Goodness Image Man Reflection Water
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
JOHN DRYDEN

Adversity Grief Misery Wicket
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Divine Faculty Force God Kind Man Philosophy
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
JOHN DRYDEN

Friendship Tears
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fools One Liner Patriot
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Dance Foot Poetry
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fake Happiness Thinking Trust
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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Believe Faith Grace Reward See Strength
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Believe Easy Invisible Mindset Unknown
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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Continue End Goodness Grace Principal Virtue

Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

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