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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?

John Dryden

And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
JOHN DRYDEN

Plate Time Writing
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
JOHN DRYDEN

God Goodness Love Thinking World
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
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Hold Last Sweet
All heiresses are beautiful.
JOHN DRYDEN

Beautiful One Liner
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
JOHN DRYDEN

Bitter Poem Satire
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools
The conscience of a people is their power.
JOHN DRYDEN

Conscience People Power
So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Death Dreams Heaven Herself Life Success
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Creation Dew Greatness Himself Morning Spirit
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
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

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