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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.

John Dryden

He who would search for pearls must dive below.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Pearl Search
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
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
JOHN DRYDEN

Death Love Part Worst
Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
JOHN DRYDEN

Charge Mindset Revenge Sharp
Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Crime Oblivion
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
JOHN DRYDEN

Death End Grave Kind Mourn
Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
JOHN DRYDEN

Admire Drama Father Himself Home Poet Writing
The conscience of a people is their power.
JOHN DRYDEN

Conscience People Power
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
JOHN DRYDEN

Elegant Flower Heaven Western
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
JOHN DRYDEN

Action Essence Fiction Human Poetry Story
Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
JOHN DRYDEN

Nature Obligation Response Trust
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
JOHN DRYDEN

Delight Freedom Human Kind
Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
JOHN DRYDEN

Eagle Fools Mount Myself Wings
All delays are dangerous in war.
JOHN DRYDEN

Dangerous Delay War
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
JOHN DRYDEN

Love Pain Pleasure
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
JOHN DRYDEN

King Mad Moments Nation

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