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

John Dryden

All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Myself Old Power Remember
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Crime Murder Punishment 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 reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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Emotion Enthusiasm Height Imagination Paint Poet Soul
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Author Himself Poet Theft Victory
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Age Alone Enough Reason Strong Walk Youth
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Face Need See Truth
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

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

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