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

John Dryden

Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
JOHN DRYDEN

Equality Life Live Right
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.
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Conscience Goodness Image Man Reflection Water
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
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
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Age Empty Experience Known Start World
The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Excitement Loud
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Conversation One Liner Soul
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Dreams Forget Forward Mindset Time
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
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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Better Health Himself Man Work
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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Life Man Origin Virtue Word
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
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Age Writing
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Beautiful Language Oneself

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

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