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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

Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
JOHN DRYDEN

Equality Life Live Right
When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
JOHN DRYDEN

Cheat Day False Fools Life
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Pearl Search
Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
JOHN DRYDEN

Favorite Heaven Man
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
JOHN DRYDEN

Race Run Swift Time
None but the brave deserve the fair.
JOHN DRYDEN

Brave Deserve Fair
Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
JOHN DRYDEN

Eyes Feeling Ourselves Soul Tender Togetherness Touch
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
JOHN DRYDEN

Busy Fools
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
JOHN DRYDEN

Character Habit Inspirational Nature Ourselves
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
JOHN DRYDEN

Children Crave Growth Man
But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
JOHN DRYDEN

Desire Hands Nature Sick Sin
Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
JOHN DRYDEN

Defense Law Nature
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
JOHN DRYDEN

Creation Dew Greatness Himself Morning Spirit
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
JOHN DRYDEN

Green Himself Youth
Pride – Lord of human kind.
JOHN DRYDEN

Human Kind Pride
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
JOHN DRYDEN

Music Passion Raise

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

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