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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.

John Dryden

None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Best Silence Suffering Time
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store
Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Goodness Ignorance Nature Reason Right World
None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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Finding Himself Imperfection Mistake Secret
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Advise Sick
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Greatness Treason Trust
The conscience of a people is their power.
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Conscience People Power
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Brave Deserve Fair
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Plate Time Writing
They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Happiness Live
A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Cheating Man Passion Reason Truth
When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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Cheat Day False Fools Life
Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
JOHN DRYDEN

Friendship Tears

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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