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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

John Dryden

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

Block Government 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
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
JOHN DRYDEN

Glitter Gold
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
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
JOHN DRYDEN

Death Love Part Worst
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
JOHN DRYDEN

Bitter Poem Satire
The conscience of a people is their power.
JOHN DRYDEN

Conscience People Power
War is the trade of kings.
JOHN DRYDEN

King One Liner Trade War
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
JOHN DRYDEN

Believe Easy Invisible Mindset Unknown
All heiresses are beautiful.
JOHN DRYDEN

Beautiful One Liner
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
JOHN DRYDEN

Act Generous Greatness Pleasure Secret
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
JOHN DRYDEN

Act Honor Love Passion
Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
JOHN DRYDEN

Age Night Old Ourselves
Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
JOHN DRYDEN

Charge Mindset Revenge Sharp
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
JOHN DRYDEN

Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word

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