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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

Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
War is the trade of kings.
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King One Liner Trade War
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Freedom Man Nature Run Savage Wild
To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Common Death Devil Evil
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
JOHN DRYDEN

Kind Man Vice Virtue
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
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
JOHN DRYDEN

Desire Hungry Liberty Store
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
JOHN DRYDEN

Courage Mindset Presence Success
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
JOHN DRYDEN

Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
JOHN DRYDEN

Believe Children Direction Education Lost Man
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice

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