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

John Dryden

Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
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
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Age Distant Force Herself Nature Poet
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War
When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
JOHN DRYDEN

Cheat Day False Fools Life
Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
JOHN DRYDEN

Discover Future Glide Haste Length Past
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
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
JOHN DRYDEN

Greatness Treason Trust
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
JOHN DRYDEN

Act Generous Greatness Pleasure Secret
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
JOHN DRYDEN

Better Health Himself Man Work
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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One Liner Power Regret Sin
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Scene
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
JOHN DRYDEN

Beautiful Dangerous Surface Way
They say everything in the world is good for something.
JOHN DRYDEN

Goodness Karma World

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

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