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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.

John Dryden

I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fight Myself Rise Wound
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
JOHN DRYDEN

Goodness Myself Talk Truth
None but the brave deserve the fair.
JOHN DRYDEN

Brave Deserve Fair
Politicians neither love nor hate.
JOHN DRYDEN

Hate Love Politics
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Man Son Treat
All authors to their own defects are blind.
JOHN DRYDEN

Author Blind Defect
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
But love’s a malady without a cure.
JOHN DRYDEN

Cure Love
Honor is but an empty bubble.
JOHN DRYDEN

Empty Respect
At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
JOHN DRYDEN

Hate Home Name Peace Soul
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
JOHN DRYDEN

Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
JOHN DRYDEN

Live Lost Luxury People Public
Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
JOHN DRYDEN

Friendship Love Price Time Treat
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
JOHN DRYDEN

Confidence Fact Known
The winds are out of breath.
JOHN DRYDEN

Breathe Wind
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
JOHN DRYDEN

Death Love Part Worst

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