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John Dryden

What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Dew Precious Pursue Track Young
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Act Generous Greatness Pleasure Secret
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Infidelity Mysterious Thinking
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Art Nature Teaching
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Plate Time Writing
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
JOHN DRYDEN

Happiness Kind Man Sadness
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
JOHN DRYDEN

Death End Grave Kind Mourn
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Pearl Search
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Beautiful Language Oneself
If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
JOHN DRYDEN

Live Past Remember Thankful

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