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11. Errors like straws upon the surface flow

First Line:: Errors like straws upon the surface flow
Last Line:: Those that would search for truth or pearl must dive below
Author:: John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:: 36786

12. Empire over the sea and main

First Line:: Empire over the sea and main
Last Line:: And can never be made a slave
DMI number:: 39855

13. Forgiveness to the injured does belong

First Line:: Forgiveness to the injured does belong
Last Line:: But they never pardon who have done the wrong
Author:: John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:: 9568

14. For wishes often are extravagant

First Line:: For wishes often are extravagant
Last Line:: It mount above and leaves poor hope behind
DMI number:: 21400

15. Great sold forgive not injuries till time

First Line:: Great sold forgive not injuries till time
Last Line:: The coward not the king
Author:: John Dryden (Absolute) & Nathaniel Lee (Absolute)
DMI number:: 20195

16. Greatness most envied when least understood

First Line:: Greatness most envied when least understood
Last Line:: To be more wretched than the vulgar can
Author:: Sir Charles Sedley (Absolute)
DMI number:: 18992

17. Good heaven that fools and knaves should be so vain

First Line:: Good heaven that fools and knaves should be so vain
Last Line:: To future days a libel and a jest
Author:: John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37677

18. He who trusts a secret to his servant

First Line:: He who trusts a secret to his servant
Last Line:: Makes his own man his master
Author:: John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:: 20761

19. Honour's | A painful burden which great minds must bear

First Line:: Honour's | A painful burden which great minds must bear
Last Line:: Obtained with danger and possessed with fear
Author:: John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:: 5663

20. How wretchedly he rules

First Line:: How wretchedly he rules
Last Line:: That's served by cowards and advised by fools
Author:: Thomas Otway (Absolute)
DMI number:: 19220