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John Dryden

The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Brave Chance Man Subject
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Delight Freedom Human Kind
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.
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Emotion Enthusiasm Height Imagination Paint Poet Soul
Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Himself Loss See Vice
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Instrument Laughter Man Rate
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Freedom Man Nature Run Savage Wild
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.
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Eagle Fools Mount Myself Wings
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Freedom Subject Thrive
Hushed as midnight silence.
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One Liner Silence
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Myself Old Power Remember
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Build Destroy
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Fight King Mad Man Praise
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Bold Fear Greatness Mask
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Discover Future Glide Haste Length Past
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Bound Habit Slave Vice
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Fools One Liner Patriot
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man

And plenty makes us poor.

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