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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.

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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
JOHN DRYDEN

Complain Leisure Light Suffering
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
JOHN DRYDEN

Cheating Favor Fools Hope Life
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
JOHN DRYDEN

Pain Pleasure Sweet
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
JOHN DRYDEN

Familiar Lose Object View
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
JOHN DRYDEN

Benefit Fate Pleasure Relate Sorrow Time
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
JOHN DRYDEN

Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word
Love is love’s reward.
JOHN DRYDEN

Love One Liner Reward
The conscience of a people is their power.
JOHN DRYDEN

Conscience People Power
They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
JOHN DRYDEN

Authority Better General Man Opinion Understand
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
JOHN DRYDEN

Death Fear Known
Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
JOHN DRYDEN

Choice Delight Evil Lying Object Truth Understand
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
JOHN DRYDEN

Human Kind Mindset Worst
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
JOHN DRYDEN

Children Crave Growth Man
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
JOHN DRYDEN

Forgiveness Injury Wrong
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
JOHN DRYDEN

Choice Fate Love
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
JOHN DRYDEN

Lying Myself Wife

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