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

John Dryden

They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Advise Sick
Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Future Heart State Tongue Tremble
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War
Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Beware Man Patience
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Block Government Time
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Himself Master Secret Servant Trust
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
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
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering
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
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Dance Foot Poetry
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
JOHN DRYDEN

Distance Flesh Goodness Present
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
JOHN DRYDEN

Grace Known Order Place

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

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