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

John Dryden

Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Defense Law Nature
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Fly Joy Youth
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Believe Conquer
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Conversation One Liner Soul
Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Life Past
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Creation Dew Greatness Himself Morning Spirit
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Freedom Subject Thrive
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride
He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Thinking Unknown Whistle

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

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