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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.

John Dryden

He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying 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
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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Creation Earth Eyes Man Mom Sky Soft
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
By education most have been misled.
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Direction Education One Liner
Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Criticism Revenge Writing
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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Follow Natural Obligation Paint Rock Sculptor
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due

Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.

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