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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.

John Dryden

Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Gift Heaven Liberty Life Love
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Bound Habit Slave Vice
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Glitter Gold
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Hate Home Name Peace Soul
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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Emotion Enthusiasm Height Imagination Paint Poet Soul
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man

For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.

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