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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.

John Dryden

He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Thinking Unknown Whistle
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Future Heart State Tongue Tremble
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Bold Fear Greatness Mask
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Age Empty Experience Known Start World
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Adventure First Forgiveness Reason Rule
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Care Destroy Happiness Man Thinking
Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Age Night Old Ourselves
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Brown Easy Light Night
Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Fury Man Patience
By education most have been misled.
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Direction Education One Liner
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Judgement Praise Theme

For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.

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