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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

Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Fake King Necessary Ruin True
Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Death Finding Love Time Way
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Music Passion Raise
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Death Fear Known
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Affection Goodness Grace Principal
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature
All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Empire Power Trust
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Believe Easy Invisible Mindset Unknown
Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Crime Murder Punishment Time
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
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Age Writing
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
Hushed as midnight silence.
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One Liner Silence
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Fight King Mad Man Praise
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Believe Conquer
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Action Essence Fiction Human Poetry Story
Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Age Night Old Ourselves
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
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Man Son Treat

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

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