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

John Dryden

Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Elegant Flower Heaven Western
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Advise Sick
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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Cheat Day False Fools Life
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
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Face Need See Truth
If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
JOHN DRYDEN

Judgement People Thinking Understand Wrong
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Plate Time Writing
At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Hate Home Name Peace Soul
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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One Liner Power Regret Sin
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad
Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Equality Life Live Right
A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
JOHN DRYDEN

Conscience Goodness Image Man Reflection Water
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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Follow Natural Obligation Paint Rock Sculptor
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
JOHN DRYDEN

Boil Nature Rise
None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
JOHN DRYDEN

Hope Life Live Pleasure Run Thinking

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