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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.

John Dryden

All heiresses are beautiful.
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Beautiful One Liner
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
The conscience of a people is their power.
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Conscience People Power
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Enemy Forgiveness Greatness Injury Power Soul Time
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
Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Goodness Ignorance Nature Reason Right World
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
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Face Need See Truth
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Children Crave Growth Man
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
JOHN DRYDEN

Gift Heaven Liberty Life Love
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Benefit Fate Pleasure Relate Sorrow Time
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
JOHN DRYDEN

Best Kind Ourselves Steal

Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.

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