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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.

John Dryden

They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Happiness Live
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
JOHN DRYDEN

Act Generous Greatness Pleasure Secret
So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
JOHN DRYDEN

Death Dreams Heaven Herself Life Success
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Age Writing
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
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

Fair Fate Myself Possession Rain Shine Time
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
JOHN DRYDEN

Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
JOHN DRYDEN

Cheating Favor Fools Hope Life
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
JOHN DRYDEN

Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
JOHN DRYDEN

Equality Life Live Right
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
JOHN DRYDEN

Ideas Nature Pleasure View
All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Empire Power Trust
Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
JOHN DRYDEN

Future Heart State Tongue Tremble
Hushed as midnight silence.
JOHN DRYDEN

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

Advise Sick
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
JOHN DRYDEN

Desire God Greatness Sin

So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.

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