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They think too little who talk too much.

John Dryden

But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Numerous Talk Thinking
Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Defense Law Nature
Order is the greatest grace.
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Greatness One Liner Order Peace
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
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Genius Gift Happy Nature
But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Desire Hands Nature Sick Sin
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Goodness Myself Talk Truth
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
Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Crime Murder Punishment Time
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Myself Old Power Remember
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Believe Conquer
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Divine Faculty Force God Kind Man Philosophy
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness

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