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

John Dryden

By education most have been misled.
JOHN DRYDEN

Direction Education One Liner
A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
JOHN DRYDEN

Character Kind Man Natural Painting Person Poetry
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
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Best Silence Suffering Time
But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Desire Hands Nature Sick Sin
All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Empire Power Trust
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Degree River Sea
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
JOHN DRYDEN

Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fake King Necessary Ruin True
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
JOHN DRYDEN

Different Fools Love Mindset Wisdom
I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fight Myself Rise Wound
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
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
Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
JOHN DRYDEN

Future Heart State Tongue Tremble
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
JOHN DRYDEN

Performance Quick Slow

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