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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.

John Dryden

He who would search for pearls must dive below.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Pearl Search
War is the trade of kings.
JOHN DRYDEN

King One Liner Trade War
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
JOHN DRYDEN

Greatness Treason Trust
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
JOHN DRYDEN

Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth
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
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
JOHN DRYDEN

Care Destroy Happiness Man Thinking
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
JOHN DRYDEN

Genius Gift Happy Nature
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
Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
JOHN DRYDEN

Empty Enough Fortune Myself Soul
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
JOHN DRYDEN

Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
JOHN DRYDEN

Beginning Growth Small
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
JOHN DRYDEN

Believe Children Direction Education Lost Man
Pride – Lord of human kind.
JOHN DRYDEN

Human Kind Pride
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
JOHN DRYDEN

Blind Willing Zeal
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
JOHN DRYDEN

Build Destroy
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
JOHN DRYDEN

Kind Man Vice Virtue

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