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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

Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
JOHN DRYDEN

Fury Revenge See
Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
JOHN DRYDEN

Courage Growth Heart
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 is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
JOHN DRYDEN

Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
They live too long who happiness outlive.
JOHN DRYDEN

Happiness Live
Merit challenges envy.
JOHN DRYDEN

Advantage Jealous One Liner
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
JOHN DRYDEN

Force Happiness Land Winter
For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
JOHN DRYDEN

Design God Mindset Ruin
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
JOHN DRYDEN

Growth Myself Reputation Young
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
JOHN DRYDEN

Myself Poverty Soul Virtue Warm
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
JOHN DRYDEN

Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
Pride – Lord of human kind.
JOHN DRYDEN

Human Kind Pride
If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
JOHN DRYDEN

Live Past Remember Thankful
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fight King Mad Man Praise
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
JOHN DRYDEN

Law Possession Prince

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