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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.

John Dryden

Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Errors Flow Gratitude Surface
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Art Nature Teaching
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Plate Time Writing
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Brave Chance Man Subject
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Beautiful Language Oneself
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Believe Children Direction Education Lost Man
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Greatness Treason Trust
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Author Himself Poet Theft Victory
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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Growth Myself Reputation Young
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Myself Old Power Remember
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Instrument Laughter Man Rate
He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Thinking Unknown Whistle
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Elegant Flower Heaven Western
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Himself Master Secret Servant Trust
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
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Adventure First Forgiveness Reason Rule
Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Age Night Old Ourselves
Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Charge Mindset Revenge Sharp
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Live Lost Luxury People Public
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Creation Dew Greatness Himself Morning Spirit
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Fake King Necessary Ruin True
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Age Distant Force Herself Nature Poet

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