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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

Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
JOHN DRYDEN

Race Run Swift Time
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
JOHN DRYDEN

Ideas Nature Pleasure View
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
JOHN DRYDEN

Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Scene
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fake King Necessary Ruin True
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
JOHN DRYDEN

Conversation One Liner Soul
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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Dangerous Delay War
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
JOHN DRYDEN

Elegant Flower Heaven Western
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
JOHN DRYDEN

Enemy Forgiveness Greatness Injury Power Soul Time
By education most have been misled.
JOHN DRYDEN

Direction Education One Liner
The conscience of a people is their power.
JOHN DRYDEN

Conscience People Power
If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
JOHN DRYDEN

Judgement People Thinking Understand Wrong
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
JOHN DRYDEN

Eyes Heaven Nature
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
JOHN DRYDEN

Brought Impossible Need Perfection
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
JOHN DRYDEN

Glitter Gold

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