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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

John Dryden

Politicians neither love nor hate.
JOHN DRYDEN

Hate Love Politics
Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Life Past
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
JOHN DRYDEN

Build Destroy
By education most have been misled.
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Direction Education One Liner
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
JOHN DRYDEN

Fury Revenge See
None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Brave Deserve Fair
Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Himself Loss See Vice
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Ideas Nature Pleasure View
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
JOHN DRYDEN

Plate Time Writing
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Numerous Talk Thinking
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
JOHN DRYDEN

Claim Grave Rich Slave
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
JOHN DRYDEN

Brought Impossible Need Perfection
Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
JOHN DRYDEN

Creation Earth Eyes Man Mom Sky Soft
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Affection Goodness Grace Principal
Hushed as midnight silence.
JOHN DRYDEN

One Liner Silence

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

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