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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.

John Dryden

Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Crime Oblivion
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
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Best Silence Suffering Time
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Fortune Madness Prudence Rule
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
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
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Equality Life Live Right
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Cheap Death Fame
Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Hate Love Politics
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Fly Joy Youth
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Children Crave Growth Man
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
JOHN DRYDEN

Character Kind Man Natural Painting Person Poetry

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