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And plenty makes us poor.

John Dryden

Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
JOHN DRYDEN

Emotion Enthusiasm Height Imagination Paint Poet Soul
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
JOHN DRYDEN

Life Man Origin Virtue Word
Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Courage Growth Heart
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Fake Happiness Thinking Trust
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Myself Poverty Soul Virtue Warm
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Age Empty Experience Known Start World
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Genius Gift Happy Nature
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Lying Myself Wife
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Hold Last Sweet
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
JOHN DRYDEN

Best Kind Ourselves Steal
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Age Writing
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Music Passion Raise
Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
JOHN DRYDEN

Choice Delight Evil Lying Object Truth Understand
Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Favorite Heaven Man
By education most have been misled.
JOHN DRYDEN

Direction Education One Liner

And plenty makes us poor.

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