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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

John Dryden

Order is the greatest grace.
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Greatness One Liner Order Peace
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Desire God Greatness Sin
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Devotion Ignorance Mom Myself Yourself
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Bound Habit Slave Vice
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
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
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Thinking Unknown Whistle
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Fortune Madness Prudence Rule
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Children Crave Growth Man
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Freedom Subject Thrive
War is the trade of kings.
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King One Liner Trade War
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Gift Heaven Liberty Life Love
A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
JOHN DRYDEN

Character Kind Man Natural Painting Person Poetry

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