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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.

John Dryden

For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Happiness Live
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
Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Crime Murder Punishment Time
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Freedom Subject Thrive
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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Fair Fate Myself Possession Rain Shine Time
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Believe Faith Grace Reward See Strength
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Build Destroy
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
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
Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
JOHN DRYDEN

Action Beautiful Fall Grace Himself People Wrong Youth

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