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

John Dryden

If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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Honor Judgement Man Member Mistake Order
Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Age Night Old Ourselves
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Degree River Sea
If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Judgement People Thinking Understand Wrong
Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
JOHN DRYDEN

Heaven Praise Prayer Promise
A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
JOHN DRYDEN

Character Kind Man Natural Painting Person Poetry
Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Life Past
A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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Conscience Goodness Image Man Reflection Water
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Fragile Love Mindset
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad
Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Friendship Tears
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Pain Pleasure Sweet
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Age Alone Enough Reason Strong Walk Youth
Pity melts the mind to love.
JOHN DRYDEN

Love Mindset Pity

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