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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

John Dryden

I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
JOHN DRYDEN

Goodness Myself Talk Truth
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
JOHN DRYDEN

Kind Man Vice Virtue
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
JOHN DRYDEN

Delight Freedom Human Kind
But love’s a malady without a cure.
JOHN DRYDEN

Cure Love
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
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
JOHN DRYDEN

Race Run Swift Time
For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
JOHN DRYDEN

Design God Mindset Ruin
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
JOHN DRYDEN

Genius Gift Happy Nature
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
JOHN DRYDEN

Beginning Growth Small
They think too little who talk too much.
JOHN DRYDEN

Talk Thinking
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
JOHN DRYDEN

Dreams Forget Forward Mindset Time
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
JOHN DRYDEN

Absence Age Love Time
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
JOHN DRYDEN

Block Government Time
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
JOHN DRYDEN

Evidence Passion Reason Rule Weakness
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
JOHN DRYDEN

Brave Chance Man Subject
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Magic Walk

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

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