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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.

John Dryden

The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Excitement Loud
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Act Generous Greatness Pleasure Secret
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Cheap Death Fame
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
JOHN DRYDEN

Elegant Flower Heaven Western
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
JOHN DRYDEN

Adventure First Forgiveness Reason Rule
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Age Genius Kind Live Study Universe
If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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God Goodness Love Thinking World
A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Himself Man Paradise Sin Sorrow Woman
Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Discover Future Glide Haste Length Past
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Race Run Swift Time
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
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
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
JOHN DRYDEN

Live Myself Past Power Rain Shine Worst
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Death Fear Known
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fools One Liner Patriot

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