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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.

John Dryden

Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Age Empty Experience Known Start World
Pity melts the mind to love.
JOHN DRYDEN

Love Mindset Pity
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
JOHN DRYDEN

Death Man Thinking Virtue
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
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
Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Discover Future Glide Haste Length Past
Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
JOHN DRYDEN

Criticism Revenge Writing
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
JOHN DRYDEN

Claim Grave Rich Slave
All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Empire Power Trust
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
JOHN DRYDEN

King Mad Moments Nation
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
JOHN DRYDEN

Believe Easy Invisible Mindset Unknown
Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
JOHN DRYDEN

Boast Born Death End Journey Live Man Place Sincere
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
JOHN DRYDEN

Happiness Kind Man Sadness
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
JOHN DRYDEN

Music Passion Raise

I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.

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