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

John Dryden

Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
Pity melts the mind to love.
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Love Mindset Pity
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Authors Enthusiasm Expectation Truth
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Age Genius Kind Live Study Universe
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Age Distant Force Herself Nature Poet
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Block Government Time
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
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Beginning Growth Small
If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Live Past Remember Thankful
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Glitter Gold
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
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Act Generous Greatness Pleasure Secret

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