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

John Dryden

Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
JOHN DRYDEN

Goodness Happiness Instrument Laughter Man Rate
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
A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
JOHN DRYDEN

Character Kind Man Natural Painting Person Poetry
Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
JOHN DRYDEN

Favorite Heaven Man
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
JOHN DRYDEN

Complain Leisure Light Suffering
Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
JOHN DRYDEN

Empty Enough Fortune Myself Soul
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fight King Mad Man Praise
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
JOHN DRYDEN

Delight Freedom Human Kind
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
JOHN DRYDEN

Green Himself Youth
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
JOHN DRYDEN

Affection Goodness Grace Principal
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
JOHN DRYDEN

Conversation One Liner Soul
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
JOHN DRYDEN

Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
War is the trade of kings.
JOHN DRYDEN

King One Liner Trade War
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
JOHN DRYDEN

Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
Politicians neither love nor hate.
JOHN DRYDEN

Hate Love Politics
What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
JOHN DRYDEN

Dew Precious Pursue Track Young

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