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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

John Dryden

Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Action Beautiful Fall Grace Himself People Wrong Youth
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Genius Gift Happy Nature
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Fragile Love Mindset
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Evidence Passion Reason Rule Weakness
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Believe Faith Grace Reward See Strength
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
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
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Cheap Death Fame
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Advise Sick
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Life Man Origin Virtue Word
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
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
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present

Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

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