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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.

John Dryden

Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Loss See Vice
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War
Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
JOHN DRYDEN

Heaven Praise Prayer Promise
Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Favorite Heaven Man
Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
JOHN DRYDEN

Death Finding Love Time Way
Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
JOHN DRYDEN

Eagle Fools Mount Myself Wings
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Conversation One Liner Soul
Pity melts the mind to love.
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Love Mindset Pity
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
JOHN DRYDEN

Beautiful Language Oneself
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
JOHN DRYDEN

Anger Cherish Disappear Forget
He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
JOHN DRYDEN

Thinking Unknown Whistle
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
JOHN DRYDEN

Brown Easy Light Night

The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.

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