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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.

John Dryden

For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
JOHN DRYDEN

Devotion Ignorance Mom Myself Yourself
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
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
JOHN DRYDEN

Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
JOHN DRYDEN

Goodness Ignorance Nature Reason Right World
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
JOHN DRYDEN

Complain Leisure Light Suffering
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
JOHN DRYDEN

Judgement Life Man
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
JOHN DRYDEN

Goodness Happiness Instrument Laughter Man Rate
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
JOHN DRYDEN

Race Run Swift Time
For they can conquer who believe they can.
JOHN DRYDEN

Believe Conquer
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
JOHN DRYDEN

Creation Dew Greatness Himself Morning Spirit
Hushed as midnight silence.
JOHN DRYDEN

One Liner Silence
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
JOHN DRYDEN

Music Passion Raise
Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Judgement Praise Theme
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
JOHN DRYDEN

Glitter Gold
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
JOHN DRYDEN

Elegant Flower Heaven Western
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation

Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.

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