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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.

John Dryden

I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Brown Easy Light Night
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
JOHN DRYDEN

Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
Beware of the fury of the patient man.
JOHN DRYDEN

Beware Man Patience
Order is the greatest grace.
JOHN DRYDEN

Greatness One Liner Order Peace
Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
JOHN DRYDEN

Emotion Enthusiasm Height Imagination Paint Poet Soul
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Build Destroy
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Himself Master Secret Servant Trust
So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
JOHN DRYDEN

Death Dreams Heaven Herself Life Success
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
JOHN DRYDEN

Hold Last Sweet
Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
JOHN DRYDEN

Eyes Feeling Ourselves Soul Tender Togetherness Touch
There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
JOHN DRYDEN

Gift Modesty Proud Time
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
JOHN DRYDEN

Growth Myself Reputation Young
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
JOHN DRYDEN

Act Generous Greatness Pleasure Secret
If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
JOHN DRYDEN

Honor Judgement Man Member Mistake Order
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
JOHN DRYDEN

One Liner Power Regret Sin

Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.

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