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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

Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
JOHN DRYDEN

Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Best Kind Ourselves Steal
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
JOHN DRYDEN

Cheat Day False Fools Life
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Character Habit Inspirational Nature Ourselves
Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
JOHN DRYDEN

Action Beautiful Fall Grace Himself People Wrong Youth
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
JOHN DRYDEN

Judgement Life Man
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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Corruption Faith Freedom Need Scripture Sufficient
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Music Passion Raise
The winds are out of breath.
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Breathe Wind
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
JOHN DRYDEN

Claim Grave Rich Slave
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
JOHN DRYDEN

Age Writing
Beware of the fury of the patient man.
JOHN DRYDEN

Beware Man Patience

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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