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John Dryden

All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Fortune Madness Prudence Rule
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
By education most have been misled.
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Direction Education One Liner
There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Gift Modesty Proud Time
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Death Fear Known
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Glitter Gold
Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Errors Flow Gratitude Surface
For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Bound Drink Food Live Power Thinking
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Children Crave Growth Man
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Life Man Origin Virtue Word
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor

Secret guilt is by silence revealed.

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