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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.

John Dryden

Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
JOHN DRYDEN

Defense Law Nature
Politicians neither love nor hate.
JOHN DRYDEN

Hate Love Politics
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
JOHN DRYDEN

Believe Children Direction Education Lost Man
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
JOHN DRYDEN

Love Pain Pleasure
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fresh Object Pity Sight
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
Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
JOHN DRYDEN

Empty Enough Fortune Myself Soul
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
JOHN DRYDEN

Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
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
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
And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
JOHN DRYDEN

Corruption Faith Freedom Need Scripture Sufficient
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
JOHN DRYDEN

Law Possession Prince
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
JOHN DRYDEN

Glitter Gold
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
JOHN DRYDEN

Race Run Swift Time
But love’s a malady without a cure.
JOHN DRYDEN

Cure Love

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