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

John Dryden

Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Myself Poverty Soul Virtue Warm
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering
They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Happiness Live
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
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection
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
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
JOHN DRYDEN

Freedom Man Nature Run Savage Wild
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
JOHN DRYDEN

Nature Obligation Response Trust
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Alone Day Happiness Live Man Myself Secure Worst
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
JOHN DRYDEN

Death Due

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

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