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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.

John Dryden

Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Errors Flow Gratitude Surface
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
JOHN DRYDEN

Myself Old Power Remember
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fake King Necessary Ruin True
The winds are out of breath.
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Breathe Wind
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
JOHN DRYDEN

Conversation One Liner Soul
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
JOHN DRYDEN

Death End Grave Kind Mourn
They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Happiness Live
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
JOHN DRYDEN

Eyes Heaven Nature
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
JOHN DRYDEN

Gift Heaven Liberty Life Love
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Plate Time Writing
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
JOHN DRYDEN

Growth Myself Reputation Young
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War

War seldom enters but where wealth allures.

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