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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

Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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Eagle Fools Mount Myself Wings
When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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Cheat Day False Fools Life
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
JOHN DRYDEN

Adversity Grief Misery Wicket
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Hate Love Politics
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Ideas Nature Pleasure View
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
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
Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Favorite Heaven Man
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
JOHN DRYDEN

Kind Man Vice Virtue
Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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Friendship Love Price Time Treat
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
Hushed as midnight silence.
JOHN DRYDEN

One Liner Silence

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