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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

John Dryden

There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Advantage Modesty Proud
The conscience of a people is their power.
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Conscience People Power
Hushed as midnight silence.
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One Liner Silence
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Conversation One Liner Soul
What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
JOHN DRYDEN

Dew Precious Pursue Track Young
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
JOHN DRYDEN

Kind Man Vice Virtue
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
They live too long who happiness outlive.
JOHN DRYDEN

Happiness Live
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
JOHN DRYDEN

Live Myself Past Power Rain Shine Worst
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
JOHN DRYDEN

Lying Myself Wife
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
JOHN DRYDEN

Build Destroy
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
JOHN DRYDEN

Judgment People True
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
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
JOHN DRYDEN

Absence Age Love Time
For they can conquer who believe they can.
JOHN DRYDEN

Believe Conquer

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

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