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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.

John Dryden

What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Dew Precious Pursue Track Young
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
JOHN DRYDEN

Bound Drink Food Live Power Thinking
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Beginning Growth Small
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
JOHN DRYDEN

Fury Revenge See
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Hold Last Sweet
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
JOHN DRYDEN

Age Genius Kind Live Study Universe
But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Cure Love
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
JOHN DRYDEN

Advise Sick
Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
JOHN DRYDEN

Goodness Ignorance Nature Reason Right World
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
Pity melts the mind to love.
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Love Mindset Pity
But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
JOHN DRYDEN

Desire Hands Nature Sick Sin

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