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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.

John Dryden

For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Bound Drink Food Live Power Thinking
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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Better Health Himself Man Work
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
War is the trade of kings.
JOHN DRYDEN

King One Liner Trade War
He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Thinking Unknown Whistle
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
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
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Music Passion Raise
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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Lost Mild Rage Sea Wind
If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
JOHN DRYDEN

Honor Judgement Man Member Mistake Order
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Age Genius Kind Live Study Universe
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Conversation One Liner Soul
Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Hate Love Politics
They say everything in the world is good for something.
JOHN DRYDEN

Goodness Karma World
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
JOHN DRYDEN

Finite Grasp Infinity

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