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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

John Dryden

An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Benefit Fate Pleasure Relate Sorrow Time
There is a proud modesty in merit.
JOHN DRYDEN

Advantage Modesty Proud
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
JOHN DRYDEN

Myself Old Power Remember
The winds are out of breath.
JOHN DRYDEN

Breathe Wind
They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
JOHN DRYDEN

Authority Better General Man Opinion Understand
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
JOHN DRYDEN

Build Destroy
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
JOHN DRYDEN

Grace Known Order Place
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
JOHN DRYDEN

Follow Natural Obligation Paint Rock Sculptor
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
JOHN DRYDEN

Live Myself Past Power Rain Shine Worst
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
JOHN DRYDEN

Freedom Subject Thrive
The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
JOHN DRYDEN

Excitement Loud
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
JOHN DRYDEN

Beginning Growth Small
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
JOHN DRYDEN

Choice Fate Love
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
JOHN DRYDEN

Elegant Flower Heaven Western
Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
JOHN DRYDEN

Life Past
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
JOHN DRYDEN

Assurance Feeling Grief

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