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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.

John Dryden

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
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Dance Foot Poetry
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
JOHN DRYDEN

Courage Mindset Presence Success
Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Favorite Heaven Man
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Brown Easy Light Night
If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
JOHN DRYDEN

God Goodness Love Thinking World
If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
JOHN DRYDEN

Honor Judgement Man Member Mistake Order
Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Loss See Vice
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fear Learning Lesson
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
JOHN DRYDEN

Continue End Goodness Grace Principal Virtue
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Myself Old Power Remember
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
JOHN DRYDEN

Affection Goodness Grace Principal
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Himself Scene
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

So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.

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