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

John Dryden

So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Goodness Myself Talk Truth
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Glitter Gold
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Fake King Necessary Ruin True
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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Eyes Feeling Ourselves Soul Tender Togetherness Touch
They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
JOHN DRYDEN

Authority Better General Man Opinion Understand
To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Common Death Devil Evil
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
JOHN DRYDEN

Equality Life Live Right
Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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Boast Born Death End Journey Live Man Place Sincere
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Greatness Treason Trust
Love is love’s reward.
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Love One Liner Reward
So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
JOHN DRYDEN

Death Dreams Heaven Herself Life Success
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

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