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John Dryden

They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Cheating Man Passion Reason Truth
Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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Lost Mild Rage Sea Wind
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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Estate Himself Misery Money Sell Soul
The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Excitement Loud
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Myself Poverty Soul Virtue Warm
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Cheating Favor Fools Hope Life
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Genius Gift Happy Nature
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Cheap Death Fame
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
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
Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Nature Obligation Response Trust
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools

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