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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.

John Dryden

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fear Learning Lesson
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
For they can conquer who believe they can.
JOHN DRYDEN

Believe Conquer
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
JOHN DRYDEN

Human Kind Mindset Worst
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
JOHN DRYDEN

Age Writing
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fragile Love Mindset
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
JOHN DRYDEN

Beautiful Language Oneself
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
JOHN DRYDEN

Beginning Growth Small
A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
JOHN DRYDEN

Conscience Goodness Image Man Reflection Water
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fake Lying Silence
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Fools One Liner Patriot
Hushed as midnight silence.
JOHN DRYDEN

One Liner Silence
Order is the greatest grace.
JOHN DRYDEN

Greatness One Liner Order Peace
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
JOHN DRYDEN

Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
JOHN DRYDEN

Fury Revenge See
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
JOHN DRYDEN

Divine Faculty Force God Kind Man Philosophy

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