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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.

John Dryden

Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Favorite Heaven Man
Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Equality Life Live Right
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
JOHN DRYDEN

Growth Myself Reputation Young
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Crime Oblivion
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
JOHN DRYDEN

Alone Day Happiness Live Man Myself Secure Worst
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
JOHN DRYDEN

Age Distant Force Herself Nature Poet
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Cheating Favor Fools Hope Life
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
JOHN DRYDEN

Race Run Swift Time
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
JOHN DRYDEN

Erase Pain

An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.

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