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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

Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
JOHN DRYDEN

Judgment People True
The conscience of a people is their power.
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Conscience People Power
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Ideas Nature Pleasure View
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Believe Children Direction Education Lost Man
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
JOHN DRYDEN

Lying Myself Wife
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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Future Heart State Tongue Tremble
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
JOHN DRYDEN

Goodness Myself Talk Truth
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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Divine Faculty Force God Kind Man Philosophy
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
JOHN DRYDEN

Anger Cherish Disappear Forget
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Magic Walk

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