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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.

John Dryden

They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Block Government Time
What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Dew Precious Pursue Track Young
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Gift Heaven Liberty Life Love
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Cheating Favor Fools Hope Life
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
Hushed as midnight silence.
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One Liner Silence
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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One Liner Power Regret Sin
A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Cheating Man Passion Reason Truth
Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Crime Murder Punishment Time
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Beginning Growth Small
Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
JOHN DRYDEN

Friendship Love Price Time Treat
Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
JOHN DRYDEN

Discover Future Glide Haste Length Past

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