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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.

John Dryden

A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Cheating Man Passion Reason Truth
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Life Man Origin Virtue Word
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Live Lost Luxury People Public
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Death Fear Known
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Delight Freedom Human Kind
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Empire Power Trust
Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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Emotion Enthusiasm Height Imagination Paint Poet Soul
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Hate Love Politics
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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Authority Better General Man Opinion Understand
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fake Lying Silence

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