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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.

John Dryden

Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
JOHN DRYDEN

Claim Grave Rich Slave
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
JOHN DRYDEN

Fury Revenge See
Beware of the fury of the patient man.
JOHN DRYDEN

Beware Man Patience
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
JOHN DRYDEN

Authors Enthusiasm Expectation Truth
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
JOHN DRYDEN

Infidelity Mysterious Thinking
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
JOHN DRYDEN

Courage Mindset Presence Success
All authors to their own defects are blind.
JOHN DRYDEN

Author Blind Defect
Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
JOHN DRYDEN

Friendship Tears
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
Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Loss See Vice
And plenty makes us poor.
JOHN DRYDEN

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

Age Genius Kind Live Study Universe
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
JOHN DRYDEN

Build Destroy
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
JOHN DRYDEN

Numerous Talk Thinking
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
JOHN DRYDEN

Race Run Swift Time
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
JOHN DRYDEN

King Mad Moments Nation

All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.

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