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John Dryden

When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Cheating Man Passion Reason Truth
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Genius Gift Happy Nature
If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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Honor Judgement Man Member Mistake Order
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Defense Law Nature
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War
Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Himself Loss See Vice
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Believe Easy Invisible Mindset Unknown
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Pain Pleasure Sweet
Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Friendship Tears
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
Love is love’s reward.
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Love One Liner Reward
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Errors Flow Gratitude Surface
For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Bound Drink Food Live Power Thinking
If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Live Past Remember Thankful
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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Anger Cherish Disappear Forget
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Care Destroy Happiness Man Thinking
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
Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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Admire Drama Father Himself Home Poet Writing
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Hate Love Politics
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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Freedom Man Nature Run Savage Wild
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson

They first condemn that first advised the ill.

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