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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!

John Dryden

No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
JOHN DRYDEN

Block Government Time
Beware the fury of a patient man.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fury Man Patience
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
JOHN DRYDEN

Brown Easy Light Night
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Scene
If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
JOHN DRYDEN

Judgement People Thinking Understand Wrong
Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
JOHN DRYDEN

Admire Drama Father Himself Home Poet Writing
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
JOHN DRYDEN

Myself Poverty Soul Virtue Warm
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
JOHN DRYDEN

Hold Last Sweet
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
JOHN DRYDEN

Grace Known Order Place
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
JOHN DRYDEN

Action Essence Fiction Human Poetry Story
If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
JOHN DRYDEN

Live Past Remember Thankful
Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
JOHN DRYDEN

Favorite Heaven Man
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
JOHN DRYDEN

Act Generous Greatness Pleasure Secret
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
JOHN DRYDEN

Race Run Swift Time
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
JOHN DRYDEN

Goodness Myself Talk Truth
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
JOHN DRYDEN

Confidence Fact Known

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