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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.

John Dryden

For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Bound Habit Slave Vice
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Instrument Laughter Man Rate
Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Friendship Tears
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
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Beware Man Patience
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Dance Foot Poetry
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
JOHN DRYDEN

Devotion Ignorance Mom Myself Yourself
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
Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
JOHN DRYDEN

Empty Enough Fortune Myself Soul
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
Hushed as midnight silence.
JOHN DRYDEN

One Liner Silence

Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.

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