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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.

John Dryden

If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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Honor Judgement Man Member Mistake Order
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
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Fight King Mad Man Praise
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Instrument Laughter Man Rate
Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Equality Life Live Right
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Advise Sick
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Evidence Passion Reason Rule Weakness
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Age Distant Force Herself Nature Poet
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
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
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Death Dreams Heaven Herself Life Success
They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Happiness Live
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking

The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.

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