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We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.

John Dryden

Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Courage Growth Heart
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
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
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Face Need See Truth
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
By education most have been misled.
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Direction Education One Liner
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Act Generous Greatness Pleasure Secret
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Desire God Greatness Sin
War is the trade of kings.
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King One Liner Trade War
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Fake King Necessary Ruin True
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Fortune Madness Prudence Rule
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
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Author Himself Poet Theft Victory
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Alone Day Happiness Live Man Myself Secure Worst
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Hold Last Sweet
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth
Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Crime Murder Punishment Time
Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Friendship Tears
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
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Action Essence Fiction Human Poetry Story
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.
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Choice Delight Evil Lying Object Truth Understand
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
For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Design God Mindset Ruin

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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