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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.

John Dryden

Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Degree River Sea
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Best Silence Suffering Time
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
The conscience of a people is their power.
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Conscience People Power
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
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
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Infidelity Mysterious Thinking
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Forgiveness Injury Wrong
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Act Generous Greatness Pleasure Secret
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Hold Last Sweet
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation

Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.

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