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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.

John Dryden

Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Magic Walk
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Cheap Death Fame
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Himself Master Secret Servant Trust
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Dance Foot Poetry
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
JOHN DRYDEN

Live Myself Past Power Rain Shine Worst
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Forgiveness Injury Wrong
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Freedom Subject Thrive
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Himself Scene
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Divine Faculty Force God Kind Man Philosophy
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
JOHN DRYDEN

Complain Leisure Light Suffering

There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.

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