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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.

John Dryden

Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
JOHN DRYDEN

Myself Old Power Remember
There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
JOHN DRYDEN

Gift Modesty Proud Time
All authors to their own defects are blind.
JOHN DRYDEN

Author Blind Defect
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
JOHN DRYDEN

Block Government Time
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
JOHN DRYDEN

Complain Leisure Light Suffering
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
JOHN DRYDEN

Goodness Happiness Instrument Laughter Man Rate
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fresh Object Pity Sight
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
JOHN DRYDEN

Bold Fear Greatness Mask
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
JOHN DRYDEN

Kind Man Vice Virtue
Beware the fury of a patient man.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fury Man Patience
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
JOHN DRYDEN

Art Miss Mistake Nature
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
JOHN DRYDEN

Seldom War Wealth
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
JOHN DRYDEN

Death Man Thinking Virtue
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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Estate Himself Misery Money Sell Soul
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
JOHN DRYDEN

Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
JOHN DRYDEN

Face Need See Truth

He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.

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