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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.

John Dryden

What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Dew Precious Pursue Track Young
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Fake King Necessary Ruin True
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
Hushed as midnight silence.
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One Liner Silence
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Authors Enthusiasm Expectation Truth
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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Growth Myself Reputation Young
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Himself Scene
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
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Gift Heaven Liberty Life Love
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Care Destroy Happiness Man Thinking

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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