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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.

John Dryden

Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
JOHN DRYDEN

Lying Myself Wife
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
JOHN DRYDEN

Conversation One Liner Soul
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
JOHN DRYDEN

Finite Grasp Infinity
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Scene
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
JOHN DRYDEN

Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Pearl Search
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
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
JOHN DRYDEN

Best Silence Suffering Time
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
JOHN DRYDEN

Elegant Flower Heaven Western
Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
JOHN DRYDEN

Nature Obligation Response Trust
To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
JOHN DRYDEN

Common Death Devil Evil
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
JOHN DRYDEN

Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
JOHN DRYDEN

Genius Gift Happy Nature
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
JOHN DRYDEN

Freedom Subject Thrive
For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
JOHN DRYDEN

Design God Mindset Ruin
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
JOHN DRYDEN

Enemy One Liner Seek Shine

Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.

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