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John Dryden

Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Adventure First Forgiveness Reason Rule
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Greatness Treason Trust
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Age Distant Force Herself Nature Poet
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
JOHN DRYDEN

Conscience Goodness Image Man Reflection Water
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Race Run Swift Time
To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Common Death Devil Evil
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Beginning Growth Small
The conscience of a people is their power.
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Conscience People Power
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Pain Pleasure Sweet
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
Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Future Heart State Tongue Tremble
If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Judgement People Thinking Understand Wrong

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