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

John Dryden

Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Race Run Swift Time
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Ideas Nature Pleasure View
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
JOHN DRYDEN

Death Man Thinking Virtue
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Face Need See Truth
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Numerous Talk Thinking
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fake Happiness Thinking Trust
Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
JOHN DRYDEN

Equality Life Live Right
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
JOHN DRYDEN

Complain Leisure Light Suffering
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Finite Grasp Infinity
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
JOHN DRYDEN

Character Habit Inspirational Nature Ourselves
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
JOHN DRYDEN

Beautiful Language Oneself
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Brave Chance Man Subject
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Greatness Treason Trust
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Beginning Growth Small
Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
JOHN DRYDEN

Age Night Old Ourselves

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