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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

John Dryden

He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Favorite Heaven Man
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Music Passion Raise
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Lying Myself Wife
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.
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Cheat Day False Fools Life
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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Anger Cherish Disappear Forget
Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Crime Murder Punishment Time
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War
They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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Authority Better General Man Opinion Understand
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fortune Madness Prudence Rule
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
JOHN DRYDEN

Age Writing

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