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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.

John Dryden

Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fly Joy Youth
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Best Silence Suffering Time
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fear Learning Lesson
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Brave Chance Man Subject
Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
JOHN DRYDEN

Criticism Revenge Writing
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Degree River Sea
For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
JOHN DRYDEN

Design God Mindset Ruin
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Himself Scene
Order is the greatest grace.
JOHN DRYDEN

Greatness One Liner Order Peace
Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
JOHN DRYDEN

Friendship Love Price Time Treat
Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
JOHN DRYDEN

Age Night Old Ourselves
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
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
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

Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.

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