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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.

John Dryden

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
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Grace Strength
Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Nature Obligation Response Trust
If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Live Past Remember Thankful
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering
And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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Corruption Faith Freedom Need Scripture Sufficient
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Age Distant Force Herself Nature Poet
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Character Habit Inspirational Nature Ourselves
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
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Eagle Fools Mount Myself Wings
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Freedom Subject Thrive
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
JOHN DRYDEN

Art Nature Teaching

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