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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.

John Dryden

Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
JOHN DRYDEN

Act Honor Love Passion
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
JOHN DRYDEN

Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Emotion Enthusiasm Height Imagination Paint Poet Soul
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Cheap Death Fame
There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Advantage Modesty Proud
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Plate Time Writing
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Dreams Forget Forward Mindset Time
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Cheating Favor Fools Hope Life
They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Happiness Live
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Art Nature Teaching
So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
JOHN DRYDEN

Death Dreams Heaven Herself Life Success
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
JOHN DRYDEN

Brown Easy Light Night

Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.

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