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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.

John Dryden

Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
JOHN DRYDEN

Choice Delight Evil Lying Object Truth Understand
If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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Honor Judgement Man Member Mistake Order
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Fake King Necessary Ruin True
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Grace Strength
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Friendship Tears
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection
Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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Fair Fate Myself Possession Rain Shine Time
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
JOHN DRYDEN

Human Kind Mindset Worst

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