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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

John Dryden

Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
JOHN DRYDEN

Better Health Himself Man Work
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word
But love’s a malady without a cure.
JOHN DRYDEN

Cure Love
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
JOHN DRYDEN

Assurance Feeling Grief
Beware of the fury of the patient man.
JOHN DRYDEN

Beware Man Patience
Pity melts the mind to love.
JOHN DRYDEN

Love Mindset Pity
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
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
JOHN DRYDEN

Finite Grasp Infinity
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
JOHN DRYDEN

Block Government Time
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
JOHN DRYDEN

Seldom War Wealth
Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
JOHN DRYDEN

Criticism Revenge Writing
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
JOHN DRYDEN

Music Passion Raise
The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
JOHN DRYDEN

Excitement Loud
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
JOHN DRYDEN

Elegant Flower Heaven Western
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
JOHN DRYDEN

Kind Man Vice Virtue
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Magic Walk

For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

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