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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.

John Dryden

Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Divine Faculty Force God Kind Man Philosophy
Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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Admire Drama Father Himself Home Poet Writing
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Greatness Treason Trust
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due
To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Common Death Devil Evil
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Pain Pleasure Sweet
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
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
Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Defense Law Nature
None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Brave Deserve Fair
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Live Lost Luxury People Public
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Himself Master Secret Servant Trust
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Cheating Favor Fools Hope Life
They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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Authority Better General Man Opinion Understand
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Death Fear Known
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Believe Easy Invisible Mindset Unknown
There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Advantage Modesty Proud
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
The winds are out of breath.
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Breathe Wind
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Bold Fear Greatness Mask
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter

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