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Pride – Lord of human kind.

John Dryden

If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Bound Habit Slave Vice
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Brave Chance Man Subject
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Brown Easy Light Night
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Freedom Subject Thrive
Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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Choice Delight Evil Lying Object Truth Understand
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Himself Scene
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Face Need See Truth
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Music Passion Raise
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Future Heart State Tongue Tremble
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Fragile Love Mindset

Pride – Lord of human kind.

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