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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.

John Dryden

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

Himself Magic Walk
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
JOHN DRYDEN

Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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Estate Himself Misery Money Sell Soul
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
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
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Benefit Fate Pleasure Relate Sorrow Time
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Crime Oblivion
By education most have been misled.
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Direction Education One Liner
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Finite Grasp Infinity
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Degree River Sea
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Author Himself Poet Theft Victory
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
JOHN DRYDEN

Infidelity Mysterious Thinking
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

Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.

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