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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.

John Dryden

He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
JOHN DRYDEN

Author Himself Poet Theft Victory
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
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.
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Better Health Himself Man Work
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Devotion Ignorance Mom Myself Yourself
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride
Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Crime Oblivion
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
JOHN DRYDEN

Action Essence Fiction Human Poetry Story
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Cheating Favor Fools Hope Life
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
JOHN DRYDEN

Brought Impossible Need Perfection
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
JOHN DRYDEN

Design God Mindset Ruin
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
JOHN DRYDEN

Music Passion Raise

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