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

John Dryden

The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Alone Day Happiness Live Man Myself Secure Worst
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Cheating Man Passion Reason Truth
Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
JOHN DRYDEN

Best Give Up Knowledge Nature Production True
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
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Beautiful Language Oneself
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fear Learning Lesson
There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
JOHN DRYDEN

Gift Modesty Proud Time
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Conversation One Liner Soul
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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Growth Myself Reputation Young
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
JOHN DRYDEN

Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice

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