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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.

John Dryden

Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection
Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Crime Murder Punishment Time
While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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Day Eyes Round Shade Sight Soul
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Affection Goodness Grace Principal
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Authors Enthusiasm Expectation Truth
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
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.
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Follow Natural Obligation Paint Rock Sculptor
Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
JOHN DRYDEN

Friendship Love Price Time Treat
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
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
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Desire God Greatness Sin
Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Fury Man Patience
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
JOHN DRYDEN

Dreams Forget Forward Mindset Time

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