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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

Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
JOHN DRYDEN

Death Due
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
JOHN DRYDEN

Equality Life Live Right
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Hold Last Sweet
Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
JOHN DRYDEN

Goodness Ignorance Nature Reason Right World
For they can conquer who believe they can.
JOHN DRYDEN

Believe Conquer
Beware of the fury of the patient man.
JOHN DRYDEN

Beware Man Patience
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
JOHN DRYDEN

Cheating Favor Fools Hope Life
Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
JOHN DRYDEN

Lost Mild Rage Sea Wind
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
JOHN DRYDEN

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

Grace Known Order Place
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Scene
Virtue is her own reward.
JOHN DRYDEN

One Liner Reward Virtue
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
JOHN DRYDEN

Advise Sick
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
JOHN DRYDEN

Forgiveness Injury Wrong
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
JOHN DRYDEN

Desire God Greatness Sin

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