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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.

John Dryden

I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Brown Easy Light Night
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Art Nature Teaching
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
JOHN DRYDEN

Delight Freedom Human Kind
All empire is no more than power in trust.
JOHN DRYDEN

Empire Power Trust
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
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
JOHN DRYDEN

Different Fools Love Mindset Wisdom
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
JOHN DRYDEN

Better Health Himself Man Work
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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One Liner Power Regret Sin
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Fake King Necessary Ruin True
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
JOHN DRYDEN

Freedom Subject Thrive
There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Advantage Modesty Proud
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
JOHN DRYDEN

Death Finding Love Time Way
They think too little who talk too much.
JOHN DRYDEN

Talk Thinking

There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.

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