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

John Dryden

Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Build Destroy
Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Courage Growth Heart
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Himself Scene
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
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
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.
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Fight Myself Rise Wound
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Devotion Ignorance Mom Myself Yourself
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Freedom Subject Thrive
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Dreams Forget Forward Mindset Time
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Advise Sick
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature
And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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Corruption Faith Freedom Need Scripture Sufficient

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

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