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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.

John Dryden

We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Art Nature Teaching
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
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
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
Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Defense Law Nature
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Dance Foot Poetry
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Act Generous Greatness Pleasure Secret
Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Nature Obligation Response Trust
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Future Heart State Tongue Tremble
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Freedom Subject Thrive

War seldom enters but where wealth allures.

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