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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.

John Dryden

When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
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
Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Crime Murder Punishment Time
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
There is a proud modesty in merit.
JOHN DRYDEN

Advantage Modesty Proud
Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Hate Love Politics
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
JOHN DRYDEN

Author Himself Poet Theft Victory
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Glitter Gold
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Loss See Vice
When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
JOHN DRYDEN

Cheat Day False Fools Life
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Advise Sick
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
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Race Run Swift Time

The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.

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