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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.

John Dryden

But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Desire Hands Nature Sick Sin
Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Courage Growth Heart
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Devotion Ignorance Mom Myself Yourself
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Lying Myself Wife
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Build Destroy
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Finite Grasp Infinity
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Brave Chance Man Subject
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.
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Best Give Up Knowledge Nature Production True
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Fake Happiness Thinking Trust
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Bold Fear Greatness Mask
Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Action Beautiful Fall Grace Himself People Wrong Youth
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store

By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.

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