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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.

John Dryden

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

Plate Time Writing
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Goodness Myself Talk Truth
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Affection Goodness Grace Principal
The conscience of a people is their power.
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Conscience People Power
They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
JOHN DRYDEN

Authority Better General Man Opinion Understand
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
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
JOHN DRYDEN

Life Man Origin Virtue Word
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Ideas Nature Pleasure View
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Character Habit Inspirational Nature Ourselves
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Advantage Modesty Proud
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Devotion Ignorance Mom Myself Yourself
Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Life Past
None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
JOHN DRYDEN

Finding Himself Imperfection Mistake Secret
Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
JOHN DRYDEN

Defense Law Nature

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