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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.

John Dryden

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
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Dance Foot Poetry
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Ideas Nature Pleasure View
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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Empty Enough Fortune Myself Soul
A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Himself Man Paradise Sin Sorrow Woman
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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Anger Cherish Disappear Forget
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War
Politicians neither love nor hate.
JOHN DRYDEN

Hate Love Politics

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