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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.

John Dryden

None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
JOHN DRYDEN

Finding Himself Imperfection Mistake Secret
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
JOHN DRYDEN

Law Possession Prince
Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Loss See Vice
None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
JOHN DRYDEN

Hope Life Live Pleasure Run Thinking
But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
JOHN DRYDEN

Desire Hands Nature Sick Sin
Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
JOHN DRYDEN

Nature Obligation Response Trust
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
JOHN DRYDEN

Bound Habit Slave Vice
I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fight Myself Rise Wound
By education most have been misled.
JOHN DRYDEN

Direction Education One Liner
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
JOHN DRYDEN

Kind Man Vice Virtue
Beware the fury of a patient man.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fury Man Patience
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Bold Fear Greatness Mask
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
JOHN DRYDEN

Different Fools Love Mindset Wisdom
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
JOHN DRYDEN

Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
JOHN DRYDEN

Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fragile Love Mindset

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