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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

John Dryden

They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Beware Man Patience
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Brave Deserve Fair
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fake King Necessary Ruin True
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
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
JOHN DRYDEN

Choice Fate Love
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
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
JOHN DRYDEN

Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
JOHN DRYDEN

Block Government Time
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
JOHN DRYDEN

Advise Sick
The conscience of a people is their power.
JOHN DRYDEN

Conscience People Power
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
JOHN DRYDEN

Death End Grave Kind Mourn
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
JOHN DRYDEN

Judgment People True
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
JOHN DRYDEN

Growth Myself Reputation Young

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

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