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Honor is but an empty bubble.

John Dryden

He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Author Himself Poet Theft Victory
The winds are out of breath.
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Breathe Wind
They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
JOHN DRYDEN

Authority Better General Man Opinion Understand
None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
JOHN DRYDEN

Hope Life Live Pleasure Run Thinking
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
Virtue is her own reward.
JOHN DRYDEN

One Liner Reward Virtue
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fly Joy Youth
Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
JOHN DRYDEN

Death Finding Love Time Way
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fear Learning Lesson
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fresh Object Pity Sight
Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
JOHN DRYDEN

Errors Flow Gratitude Surface
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
JOHN DRYDEN

Different Fools Love Mindset Wisdom
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
JOHN DRYDEN

Judgment People True
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
JOHN DRYDEN

Known Mad Pleasure

Honor is but an empty bubble.

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