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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.

John Dryden

Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Hate Love Politics
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Finite Grasp Infinity
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Block Government Time
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Freedom Man Nature Run Savage Wild
Hushed as midnight silence.
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One Liner Silence
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Brave Chance Man Subject
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
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Glitter Gold
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Plate Time Writing
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Face Need See Truth
Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Himself Loss See Vice
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fair Fate Myself Possession Rain Shine Time
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Race Run Swift Time
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Man Son Treat
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride
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
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
JOHN DRYDEN

Goodness Myself Talk Truth

And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.

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