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

John Dryden

None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Brave Deserve Fair
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Fight King Mad Man Praise
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Hold Last Sweet
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Death End Grave Kind Mourn
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
JOHN DRYDEN

God Goodness Love Thinking World
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
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 am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Freedom Man Nature Run Savage Wild
For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Design God Mindset Ruin

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