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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

John Dryden

He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Master Secret Servant Trust
Hushed as midnight silence.
JOHN DRYDEN

One Liner Silence
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
JOHN DRYDEN

Devotion Ignorance Mom Myself Yourself
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fly Joy Youth
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
JOHN DRYDEN

Art Nature Teaching
For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
JOHN DRYDEN

Design God Mindset Ruin
Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
JOHN DRYDEN

Best Give Up Knowledge Nature Production True
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
JOHN DRYDEN

Face Need See Truth
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
JOHN DRYDEN

Race Run Swift Time
Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
JOHN DRYDEN

Courage Growth Heart
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
JOHN DRYDEN

Bold Fear Greatness Mask
None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
JOHN DRYDEN

Hope Life Live Pleasure Run Thinking
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
JOHN DRYDEN

Alone Day Happiness Live Man Myself Secure Worst
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
JOHN DRYDEN

Age Distant Force Herself Nature Poet
Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
JOHN DRYDEN

Criticism Revenge Writing
Merit challenges envy.
JOHN DRYDEN

Advantage Jealous One Liner

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

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