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

John Dryden

I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fight Myself Rise Wound
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
JOHN DRYDEN

King Mad Moments Nation
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
JOHN DRYDEN

Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
JOHN DRYDEN

Block Government Time
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
JOHN DRYDEN

Erase Pain
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fight King Mad Man Praise
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
JOHN DRYDEN

Advise Sick
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
JOHN DRYDEN

Beautiful Language Oneself
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
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
JOHN DRYDEN

Race Run Swift Time
Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
JOHN DRYDEN

Life Past
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
JOHN DRYDEN

Estate Himself Misery Money Sell Soul
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
JOHN DRYDEN

Freedom Man Nature Run Savage Wild
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fake King Necessary Ruin True
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
JOHN DRYDEN

Genius Gift Happy Nature
Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
JOHN DRYDEN

Lost Mild Rage Sea Wind

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