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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.

John Dryden

If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Judgement People Thinking Understand Wrong
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Race Run Swift Time
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Believe Easy Invisible Mindset Unknown
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
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Fortune Madness Prudence Rule
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Freedom Man Nature Run Savage Wild
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Divine Faculty Force God Kind Man Philosophy
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Grace Strength
All heiresses are beautiful.
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Beautiful One Liner
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools
There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Advantage Modesty Proud

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