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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.

John Dryden

So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Finite Grasp Infinity
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Act Generous Greatness Pleasure Secret
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Dreams Forget Forward Mindset Time
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Judgement People Thinking Understand Wrong
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Genius Gift Happy Nature
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.
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Divine Faculty Force God Kind Man Philosophy
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
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
JOHN DRYDEN

Bound Habit Slave Vice
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Cheap Death Fame
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
JOHN DRYDEN

Myself Old Power Remember

Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.

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