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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.

John Dryden

Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Favorite Heaven Man
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Goodness Myself Talk Truth
Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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Admire Drama Father Himself Home Poet Writing
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Death Finding Love Time Way
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Best Kind Ourselves Steal
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Best Silence Suffering Time
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Plate Time Writing
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
JOHN DRYDEN

Beautiful Dangerous Surface Way
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
JOHN DRYDEN

Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
The conscience of a people is their power.
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Conscience People Power
A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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Conscience Goodness Image Man Reflection Water
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
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
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
JOHN DRYDEN

Confidence Fact Known

Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.

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