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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

John Dryden

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Forgiveness Injury Wrong
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Desire Hands Nature Sick Sin
He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
JOHN DRYDEN

Thinking Unknown Whistle
None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Brave Deserve Fair
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.
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Believe Children Direction Education Lost Man
A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Cheating Man Passion Reason Truth
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Dance Foot Poetry
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Fake King Necessary Ruin True
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Greatness Treason Trust
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
JOHN DRYDEN

Block Government Time
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Excitement Loud
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Bound Habit Slave Vice
Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
JOHN DRYDEN

Eagle Fools Mount Myself Wings

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

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