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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.

John Dryden

What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Dew Precious Pursue Track Young
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
JOHN DRYDEN

Goodness Myself Talk Truth
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
JOHN DRYDEN

King Mad Moments Nation
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
JOHN DRYDEN

Plate Time Writing
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Master Secret Servant Trust
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
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
JOHN DRYDEN

Freedom Subject Thrive
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
JOHN DRYDEN

Lying Myself Wife
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
JOHN DRYDEN

Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad
Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
JOHN DRYDEN

Age Night Old Ourselves
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Magic Walk
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
JOHN DRYDEN

Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store
Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Fury Man Patience
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fly Joy Youth
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
JOHN DRYDEN

Age Genius Kind Live Study Universe

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