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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.

John Dryden

Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Fake King Necessary Ruin True
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Delight Freedom Human Kind
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Advise Sick
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due
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
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Age Alone Enough Reason Strong Walk Youth
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Glitter Gold
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Character Habit Inspirational Nature Ourselves
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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Better Health Himself Man Work
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
JOHN DRYDEN

Lying Myself Wife
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
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Man Son Treat
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
JOHN DRYDEN

Best Silence Suffering Time
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
JOHN DRYDEN

Gift Heaven Liberty Life Love
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
JOHN DRYDEN

Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fresh Object Pity Sight
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
JOHN DRYDEN

Cheap Death Fame
What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Dew Precious Pursue Track Young
Love is love’s reward.
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Love One Liner Reward
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Pain Pleasure Sweet
Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
JOHN DRYDEN

Courage Growth Heart

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