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John Dryden

Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Best Silence Suffering Time
There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Advantage Modesty Proud
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Art Nature Teaching
Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Crime Murder Punishment Time
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Bound Habit Slave Vice
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Alone Day Happiness Live Man Myself Secure Worst
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
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
Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Crime Oblivion
Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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Lost Mild Rage Sea Wind
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Hate Love Politics
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

The winds are out of breath.

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