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All heiresses are beautiful.

John Dryden

If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
JOHN DRYDEN

God Goodness Love Thinking World
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
JOHN DRYDEN

Beautiful Language Oneself
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
JOHN DRYDEN

Myself Poverty Soul Virtue Warm
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
JOHN DRYDEN

Age Empty Experience Known Start World
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
JOHN DRYDEN

Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word
For they can conquer who believe they can.
JOHN DRYDEN

Believe Conquer
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
JOHN DRYDEN

Anger Cherish Disappear Forget
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
JOHN DRYDEN

Blind Willing Zeal
There is a proud modesty in merit.
JOHN DRYDEN

Advantage Modesty Proud
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
JOHN DRYDEN

Conversation One Liner Soul
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
JOHN DRYDEN

Degree River Sea
Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
JOHN DRYDEN

Life Past
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
JOHN DRYDEN

Act Generous Greatness Pleasure Secret
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
JOHN DRYDEN

Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
JOHN DRYDEN

Distance Flesh Goodness Present
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
JOHN DRYDEN

Art Miss Mistake Nature

All heiresses are beautiful.

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