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

John Dryden

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
JOHN DRYDEN

Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
JOHN DRYDEN

Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
JOHN DRYDEN

Erase Pain
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
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
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.
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Anger Cherish Disappear Forget
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
JOHN DRYDEN

Goodness Happiness Instrument Laughter Man Rate
But love’s a malady without a cure.
JOHN DRYDEN

Cure Love
The conscience of a people is their power.
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Conscience People Power
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
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
JOHN DRYDEN

Live Lost Luxury People Public
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
JOHN DRYDEN

Eyes Heaven Nature
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Children Crave Growth Man
None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Brave Deserve Fair
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Man Son Treat
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
JOHN DRYDEN

Age Writing

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