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To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.

John Dryden

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

Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Instrument Laughter Man Rate
Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Charge Mindset Revenge Sharp
Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Favorite Heaven Man
Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Crime Oblivion
Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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Choice Delight Evil Lying Object Truth Understand
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
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
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
All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Empire Power Trust
A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Himself Man Paradise Sin Sorrow Woman
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
JOHN DRYDEN

Death Man Thinking Virtue

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