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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?

John Dryden

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
JOHN DRYDEN

Age Alone Enough Reason Strong Walk Youth
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
JOHN DRYDEN

Confidence Fact Known
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
JOHN DRYDEN

Enemy Forgiveness Greatness Injury Power Soul Time
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
JOHN DRYDEN

Courage Mindset Presence Success
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
JOHN DRYDEN

Best Silence Suffering Time
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
JOHN DRYDEN

Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
JOHN DRYDEN

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

Gift Modesty Proud Time
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fake Lying Silence
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
Merit challenges envy.
JOHN DRYDEN

Advantage Jealous One Liner
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
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
JOHN DRYDEN

Desire Hungry Liberty Store
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fragile Love Mindset
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
JOHN DRYDEN

Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
JOHN DRYDEN

Eyes Heaven Nature

For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?

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