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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.

John Dryden

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Degree River Sea
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
JOHN DRYDEN

Best Kind Ourselves Steal
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Author Himself Poet Theft Victory
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Pain Pleasure Sweet
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
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
JOHN DRYDEN

Continue End Goodness Grace Principal Virtue
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Beautiful Language Oneself
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Affection Goodness Grace Principal
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Himself Scene
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Death Fear Known
The conscience of a people is their power.
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Conscience People Power
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Gift Heaven Liberty Life Love
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word

The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.

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