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

John Dryden

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

Himself Pearl Search
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
JOHN DRYDEN

Busy Fools
He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
JOHN DRYDEN

Thinking Unknown Whistle
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
JOHN DRYDEN

Better Health Himself Man Work
Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
JOHN DRYDEN

Crime Murder Punishment Time
All heiresses are beautiful.
JOHN DRYDEN

Beautiful One Liner
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
JOHN DRYDEN

Claim Grave Rich Slave
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
JOHN DRYDEN

Desire Hungry Liberty Store
Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Loss See Vice
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
JOHN DRYDEN

Chance Hot Iron Leisure
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Magic Walk
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Master Secret Servant Trust
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
JOHN DRYDEN

Grace Known Order Place
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
JOHN DRYDEN

Art Nature Teaching
They think too little who talk too much.
JOHN DRYDEN

Talk Thinking
Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
JOHN DRYDEN

Favorite Heaven Man

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