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They that possess the prince possess the laws.

John Dryden

Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Beautiful Language Oneself
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Instrument Laughter Man Rate
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Race Run Swift Time
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
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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Continue End Goodness Grace Principal Virtue
He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Thinking Unknown Whistle
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Authors Enthusiasm Expectation Truth
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Fragile Love Mindset
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Art Nature Teaching
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Elegant Flower Heaven Western
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Defense Law Nature

They that possess the prince possess the laws.

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