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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.

John Dryden

Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
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Live Myself Past Power Rain Shine Worst
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Devotion Ignorance Mom Myself Yourself
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
JOHN DRYDEN

Best Kind Ourselves Steal
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Glitter Gold
Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Courage Growth Heart
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
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Bound Habit Slave Vice
The conscience of a people is their power.
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Conscience People Power
By education most have been misled.
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Direction Education One Liner
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Pain Pleasure Sweet
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Character Habit Inspirational Nature Ourselves
Pride – Lord of human kind.
JOHN DRYDEN

Human Kind Pride
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
JOHN DRYDEN

Conversation One Liner Soul

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