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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.

John Dryden

Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Fake King Necessary Ruin True
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
The conscience of a people is their power.
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Conscience People Power
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
JOHN DRYDEN

Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride
Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Himself Loss See Vice
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Empire Power Trust
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Happiness Live
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
JOHN DRYDEN

Cheat Day False Fools Life

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