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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.

John Dryden

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
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
JOHN DRYDEN

Follow Natural Obligation Paint Rock Sculptor
There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Gift Modesty Proud Time
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth
A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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Conscience Goodness Image Man Reflection Water
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Beginning Growth Small
Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Age Night Old Ourselves
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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Growth Myself Reputation Young
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Fools One Liner Patriot
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.
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Divine Faculty Force God Kind Man Philosophy
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Music Passion Raise
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
All heiresses are beautiful.
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Beautiful One Liner
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
JOHN DRYDEN

Freedom Man Nature Run Savage Wild
If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
JOHN DRYDEN

Live Past Remember Thankful

None are so busy as the fool and the knave.

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