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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

John Dryden

Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
JOHN DRYDEN

Blind Willing Zeal
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
JOHN DRYDEN

Dreams Forget Forward Mindset Time
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
JOHN DRYDEN

Children Crave Growth Man
Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Defense Law Nature
By education most have been misled.
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Direction Education One Liner
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Evidence Passion Reason Rule Weakness
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
JOHN DRYDEN

Equality Life Live Right
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
JOHN DRYDEN

Author Himself Poet Theft Victory
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Advise Sick
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
JOHN DRYDEN

Degree River Sea
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
JOHN DRYDEN

Human Kind Mindset Worst
None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
JOHN DRYDEN

Finding Himself Imperfection Mistake Secret
He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Thinking Unknown Whistle
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fools One Liner Patriot

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

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