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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.

John Dryden

As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Judgement People Thinking Understand Wrong
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Different Fools Love Mindset Wisdom
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Benefit Fate Pleasure Relate Sorrow Time
None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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Finding Himself Imperfection Mistake Secret
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Dreams Forget Forward Mindset Time
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Fury Man Patience
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Fight Myself Rise Wound
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking

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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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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