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John Dryden

Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Greatness Treason Trust
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
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.
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Eagle Fools Mount Myself Wings
But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Desire Hands Nature Sick Sin
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Author Himself Poet Theft Victory
All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Empire Power Trust
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
Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Courage Growth Heart
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.
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God Goodness Love Thinking World
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Believe Easy Invisible Mindset Unknown
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Character Habit Inspirational Nature Ourselves
Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Crime Murder Punishment Time

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