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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.

John Dryden

An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
JOHN DRYDEN

Chance Hot Iron Leisure
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
JOHN DRYDEN

Alone Day Happiness Live Man Myself Secure Worst
All empire is no more than power in trust.
JOHN DRYDEN

Empire Power Trust
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
God never made his work for man to mend.
JOHN DRYDEN

God Man Mend Work
Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
JOHN DRYDEN

Friendship Tears
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
JOHN DRYDEN

Advise Sick
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
JOHN DRYDEN

Plate Time Writing
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Numerous Talk Thinking
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
JOHN DRYDEN

Myself Old Power Remember
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
JOHN DRYDEN

Gift Heaven Liberty Life Love
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Death Fear Known
Pride – Lord of human kind.
JOHN DRYDEN

Human Kind Pride
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
JOHN DRYDEN

Happiness Kind Man Sadness

Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.

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