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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

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
JOHN DRYDEN

Love Pain Pleasure
A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
JOHN DRYDEN

Conscience Goodness Image Man Reflection Water
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Art Nature Teaching
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
JOHN DRYDEN

Best Silence Suffering Time
A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Man Paradise Sin Sorrow Woman
They think too little who talk too much.
JOHN DRYDEN

Talk Thinking
Politicians neither love nor hate.
JOHN DRYDEN

Hate Love Politics
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
JOHN DRYDEN

Music Passion Raise
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
JOHN DRYDEN

Brave Despair Happiness
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
JOHN DRYDEN

Better Health Himself Man Work
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
JOHN DRYDEN

Absence Age Love Time
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
JOHN DRYDEN

Dreams Forget Forward Mindset Time
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fountain Goodness Sense
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
JOHN DRYDEN

Green Himself Youth
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
JOHN DRYDEN

Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
JOHN DRYDEN

Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth

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