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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.

John Dryden

Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Divine Faculty Force God Kind Man Philosophy
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fight Myself Rise Wound
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
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Genius Gift Happy Nature
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
JOHN DRYDEN

Music Passion Raise
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
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
For they can conquer who believe they can.
JOHN DRYDEN

Believe Conquer
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
JOHN DRYDEN

Believe Faith Grace Reward See Strength
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
JOHN DRYDEN

Continue End Goodness Grace Principal Virtue
None but the brave deserve the fair.
JOHN DRYDEN

Brave Deserve Fair

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