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A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.

John Dryden

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Fools One Liner Patriot
I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Fight Myself Rise Wound
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Build Destroy
Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Hate Love Politics
Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Himself Loss See Vice
Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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Friendship Love Price Time Treat
Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Life Past
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
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
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Dance Foot Poetry
Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Age Night Old Ourselves
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Children Crave Growth Man
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
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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Continue End Goodness Grace Principal Virtue
The conscience of a people is their power.
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Conscience People Power
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Greatness Treason Trust
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Believe Easy Invisible Mindset Unknown
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Goodness Myself Talk Truth
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Affection Goodness Grace Principal
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
JOHN DRYDEN

Plate Time Writing
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
JOHN DRYDEN

Performance Quick Slow

A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.

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