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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

John Dryden

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.
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Admire Drama Father Himself Home Poet Writing
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Plate Time Writing
Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
JOHN DRYDEN

Eagle Fools Mount Myself Wings
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Finite Grasp Infinity
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
JOHN DRYDEN

Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Lying Myself Wife
Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Goodness Ignorance Nature Reason Right World
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store
War is the trade of kings.
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King One Liner Trade War
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
JOHN DRYDEN

Believe Children Direction Education Lost Man
For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Bound Drink Food Live Power Thinking
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fight King Mad Man Praise

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

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