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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.

John Dryden

But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Desire Hands Nature Sick Sin
Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
JOHN DRYDEN

Friendship Love Price Time Treat
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
JOHN DRYDEN

Affection Goodness Grace Principal
By education most have been misled.
JOHN DRYDEN

Direction Education One Liner
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
JOHN DRYDEN

Age Writing
A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Cheating Man Passion Reason Truth
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
JOHN DRYDEN

Best Kind Ourselves Steal
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Numerous Talk Thinking
Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Discover Future Glide Haste Length Past
Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Favorite Heaven Man
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Man Son Treat
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
JOHN DRYDEN

Beautiful Language Oneself
There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
JOHN DRYDEN

Gift Modesty Proud Time
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fear Learning Lesson
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due
And plenty makes us poor.
JOHN DRYDEN

Poor

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