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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

Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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Growth Myself Reputation Young
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Age Alone Enough Reason Strong Walk Youth
Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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Admire Drama Father Himself Home Poet Writing
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
JOHN DRYDEN

Emotion Enthusiasm Height Imagination Paint Poet Soul
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Degree River Sea
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
All heiresses are beautiful.
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Beautiful One Liner
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation

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