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O freedom, first delight of human kind!

John Dryden

When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Ideas Nature Pleasure View
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Goodness Myself Talk Truth
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Adversity Grief Misery Wicket
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Myself Old Power Remember
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Character Habit Inspirational Nature Ourselves
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
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
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
Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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Eagle Fools Mount Myself Wings
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Benefit Fate Pleasure Relate Sorrow Time
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation
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
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Fools One Liner Patriot
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth

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