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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

So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Death Dreams Heaven Herself Life Success
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
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, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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Cheat Day False Fools Life
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
The winds are out of breath.
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Breathe Wind
Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Charge Mindset Revenge Sharp
There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Advantage Modesty Proud
They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Happiness Live
Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Death Finding Love Time Way
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Freedom Subject Thrive
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
None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
JOHN DRYDEN

Finding Himself Imperfection Mistake Secret
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
JOHN DRYDEN

Life Man Origin Virtue Word

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.

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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.

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