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

John Dryden

And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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Corruption Faith Freedom Need Scripture Sufficient
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Build Destroy
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Myself Old Power Remember
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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Estate Himself Misery Money Sell Soul
Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Courage Growth Heart
Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Age Night Old Ourselves
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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Admire Drama Father Himself Home Poet Writing
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
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
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
So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Death Dreams Heaven Herself Life Success
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
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War

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