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

John Dryden

Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Crime Murder Punishment Time
None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Brave Deserve Fair
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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Honor Judgement Man Member Mistake Order
What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
JOHN DRYDEN

Dew Precious Pursue Track Young
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Plate Time Writing
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
JOHN DRYDEN

Block Government Time
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
JOHN DRYDEN

Follow Natural Obligation Paint Rock Sculptor
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Benefit Fate Pleasure Relate Sorrow Time
A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
JOHN DRYDEN

Character Kind Man Natural Painting Person Poetry
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
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
Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Crime Oblivion
All heiresses are beautiful.
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Beautiful One Liner
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst

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