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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.

John Dryden

We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
JOHN DRYDEN

Adversity Grief Misery Wicket
For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Design God Mindset Ruin
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
The winds are out of breath.
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Breathe Wind
A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Cheating Man Passion Reason Truth
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Fight King Mad Man Praise
To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Common Death Devil Evil
Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Action Beautiful Fall Grace Himself People Wrong Youth
I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fight Myself Rise Wound
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
JOHN DRYDEN

Action Essence Fiction Human Poetry Story
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
JOHN DRYDEN

Infidelity Mysterious Thinking
But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Cure Love
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
There is a proud modesty in merit.
JOHN DRYDEN

Advantage Modesty Proud

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