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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.

John Dryden

Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Fight King Mad Man Praise
Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Age Night Old Ourselves
If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Judgement People Thinking Understand Wrong
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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One Liner Power Regret Sin
Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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Creation Earth Eyes Man Mom Sky Soft
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
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Gift Heaven Liberty Life Love
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Divine Faculty Force God Kind Man Philosophy
For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Bound Drink Food Live Power Thinking
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Greatness Treason Trust
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Advantage Modesty Proud
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store
Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
JOHN DRYDEN

Favorite Heaven Man

If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.

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