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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
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Himself Scene
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
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
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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Friendship Love Price Time Treat
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Gift Heaven Liberty Life Love
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Build Destroy
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Advise Sick
None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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Finding Himself Imperfection Mistake Secret
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Goodness Myself Talk Truth
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
Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Discover Future Glide Haste Length Past
For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Believe Conquer
The winds are out of breath.
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Breathe Wind

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