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John Dryden

Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
The winds are out of breath.
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Breathe Wind
Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Criticism Revenge Writing
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering
There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Advantage Modesty Proud
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Bold Fear Greatness Mask
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Forgiveness Injury Wrong
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Believe Faith Grace Reward See Strength
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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Better Health Himself Man Work
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Advise Sick
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Divine Faculty Force God Kind Man Philosophy
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

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