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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?

John Dryden

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
JOHN DRYDEN

Grace Known Order Place
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Best Silence Suffering Time
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
JOHN DRYDEN

Creation Dew Greatness Himself Morning Spirit
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
JOHN DRYDEN

Distance Flesh Goodness Present
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
JOHN DRYDEN

Anger Cherish Disappear Forget
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
JOHN DRYDEN

Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
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
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
JOHN DRYDEN

Performance Quick Slow
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
JOHN DRYDEN

Age Distant Force Herself Nature Poet
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
JOHN DRYDEN

Degree River Sea
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

For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?

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