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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.

John Dryden

If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Evidence Passion Reason Rule Weakness
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Affection Goodness Grace Principal
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
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Advise Sick
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Best Silence Suffering Time
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Himself Scene
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
War is the trade of kings.
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King One Liner Trade War
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
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Forgiveness Injury Wrong
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
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Best Give Up Knowledge Nature Production True
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Conversation One Liner Soul
Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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Admire Drama Father Himself Home Poet Writing
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
JOHN DRYDEN

Erase Pain

There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.

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