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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

John Dryden

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
JOHN DRYDEN

Anger Cherish Disappear Forget
If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
JOHN DRYDEN

Honor Judgement Man Member Mistake Order
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fake King Necessary Ruin True
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Beginning Growth Small
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fragile Love Mindset
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
JOHN DRYDEN

King Mad Moments Nation
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
JOHN DRYDEN

Age Writing
But love’s a malady without a cure.
JOHN DRYDEN

Cure Love
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
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fake Lying Silence
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
JOHN DRYDEN

Death End Grave Kind Mourn
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
JOHN DRYDEN

Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
JOHN DRYDEN

Erase Pain
Beware the fury of a patient man.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fury Man Patience
Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
JOHN DRYDEN

Crime Murder Punishment Time

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