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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.

John Dryden

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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Judgement People Thinking Understand Wrong
Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
JOHN DRYDEN

Friendship Tears
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
JOHN DRYDEN

Art Nature Teaching
A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
JOHN DRYDEN

Character Kind Man Natural Painting Person Poetry
Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
JOHN DRYDEN

Age Night Old Ourselves
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
Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
JOHN DRYDEN

Life Past
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
JOHN DRYDEN

Law Possession Prince
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
JOHN DRYDEN

Ideas Nature Pleasure View
All delays are dangerous in war.
JOHN DRYDEN

Dangerous Delay War
Order is the greatest grace.
JOHN DRYDEN

Greatness One Liner Order Peace
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
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
JOHN DRYDEN

Brought Impossible Need Perfection
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
JOHN DRYDEN

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

Himself Pearl Search
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
JOHN DRYDEN

Different Fools Love Mindset Wisdom

Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.

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