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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

John Dryden

Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Crime Murder Punishment Time
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Cheap Death Fame
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
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

Corruption Faith Freedom Need Scripture Sufficient
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Brave Chance Man Subject
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Ideas Nature Pleasure View
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
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
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
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Race Run Swift Time
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
JOHN DRYDEN

Beautiful Language Oneself
There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
JOHN DRYDEN

Gift Modesty Proud Time

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

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