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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.

John Dryden

Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fight King Mad Man Praise
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
JOHN DRYDEN

Adversity Grief Misery Wicket
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
JOHN DRYDEN

Art Nature Teaching
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
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
JOHN DRYDEN

Happiness Kind Man Sadness
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
JOHN DRYDEN

Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
JOHN DRYDEN

Eyes Heaven Nature
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
JOHN DRYDEN

Delight Freedom Human Kind
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
JOHN DRYDEN

Music Passion Raise
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
JOHN DRYDEN

Estate Himself Misery Money Sell Soul
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
JOHN DRYDEN

Genius Gift Happy Nature
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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Age Distant Force Herself Nature Poet
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
JOHN DRYDEN

King Mad Moments Nation
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
JOHN DRYDEN

Race Run Swift Time
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
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
JOHN DRYDEN

Myself Old Power Remember

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