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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.

John Dryden

By education most have been misled.
JOHN DRYDEN

Direction Education One Liner
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Bold Fear Greatness Mask
A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Cheating Man Passion Reason Truth
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
JOHN DRYDEN

Ideas Nature Pleasure View
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
Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Defense Law Nature
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Age Genius Kind Live Study Universe
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fight King Mad Man Praise
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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fight Myself Rise Wound
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
JOHN DRYDEN

Conversation One Liner Soul
Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
JOHN DRYDEN

Charge Mindset Revenge Sharp
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Growth Myself Reputation Young
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
JOHN DRYDEN

Fury Revenge See

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