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

John Dryden

Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Pain Pleasure Sweet
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Desire Hands Nature Sick Sin
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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Admire Drama Father Himself Home Poet Writing
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Degree River Sea
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
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Devotion Ignorance Mom Myself Yourself
If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
JOHN DRYDEN

God Goodness Love Thinking World

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