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

John Dryden

Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
JOHN DRYDEN

Crime Murder Punishment Time
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fools One Liner Patriot
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
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
JOHN DRYDEN

Advise Sick
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
JOHN DRYDEN

Conversation One Liner Soul
While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
JOHN DRYDEN

Day Eyes Round Shade Sight Soul
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
JOHN DRYDEN

Green Himself Youth
Merit challenges envy.
JOHN DRYDEN

Advantage Jealous One Liner
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
JOHN DRYDEN

Art Nature Teaching
They think too little who talk too much.
JOHN DRYDEN

Talk Thinking
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
JOHN DRYDEN

Bound Habit Slave Vice
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Magic Walk
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
JOHN DRYDEN

Judgment People True
Beware the fury of a patient man.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fury Man Patience
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Master Secret Servant Trust
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
JOHN DRYDEN

Follow Natural Obligation Paint Rock Sculptor

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