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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

All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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Eagle Fools Mount Myself Wings
Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Courage Growth Heart
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Lying Myself Wife
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.
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Friendship Love Price Time Treat
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Brown Easy Light Night
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
JOHN DRYDEN

Forgiveness Injury Wrong
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
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Defense Law Nature
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Art Nature Teaching
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
JOHN DRYDEN

Live Lost Luxury People Public

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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