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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

Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Believe Faith Grace Reward See Strength
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Advise Sick
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
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
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Myself Old Power Remember
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
War is the trade of kings.
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King One Liner Trade War
Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
JOHN DRYDEN

Action Beautiful Fall Grace Himself People Wrong Youth
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Brown Easy Light Night
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Bound Habit Slave Vice
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
JOHN DRYDEN

Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
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
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Fragile Love Mindset
Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
JOHN DRYDEN

Admire Drama Father Himself Home Poet Writing

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

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