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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.

John Dryden

But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Numerous Talk Thinking
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Hate Home Name Peace Soul
Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
JOHN DRYDEN

Best Give Up Knowledge Nature Production True
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Act Generous Greatness Pleasure Secret
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
JOHN DRYDEN

Happiness Kind Man Sadness
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
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.
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Age Distant Force Herself Nature Poet
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Himself Master Secret Servant Trust
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
JOHN DRYDEN

Death Love Part Worst
Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
JOHN DRYDEN

Lost Mild Rage Sea Wind
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Divine Faculty Force God Kind Man Philosophy
Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Hate Love Politics
All empire is no more than power in trust.
JOHN DRYDEN

Empire Power Trust

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