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

John Dryden

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Degree River Sea
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Cheap Death Fame
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
By education most have been misled.
JOHN DRYDEN

Direction Education One Liner
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Himself Master Secret Servant Trust
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fake King Necessary Ruin True
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
JOHN DRYDEN

Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Art Nature Teaching
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
Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
JOHN DRYDEN

Death Finding Love Time Way
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
JOHN DRYDEN

Brave Despair Happiness
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
JOHN DRYDEN

Goodness Happiness Instrument Laughter Man Rate
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
JOHN DRYDEN

Claim Grave Rich Slave
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
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
Merit challenges envy.
JOHN DRYDEN

Advantage Jealous One Liner
For they can conquer who believe they can.
JOHN DRYDEN

Believe Conquer
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
JOHN DRYDEN

Familiar Lose Object View
All empire is no more than power in trust.
JOHN DRYDEN

Empire Power Trust
While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
JOHN DRYDEN

Day Eyes Round Shade Sight Soul
They say everything in the world is good for something.
JOHN DRYDEN

Goodness Karma World
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
JOHN DRYDEN

Infidelity Mysterious Thinking
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
JOHN DRYDEN

Creation Dew Greatness Himself Morning Spirit
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fortune Madness Prudence Rule
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Man Son Treat

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

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