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The conscience of a people is their power.

John Dryden

So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Beware Man Patience
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
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Delight Freedom Human Kind
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation
Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Friendship Tears
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Freedom Subject Thrive
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
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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Heaven Praise Prayer Promise
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Pain Pleasure Sweet
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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Growth Myself Reputation Young
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success

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