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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.

John Dryden

For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Design God Mindset Ruin
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Beautiful Language Oneself
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Desire God Greatness Sin
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Devotion Ignorance Mom Myself Yourself
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride
Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
JOHN DRYDEN

Action Beautiful Fall Grace Himself People Wrong Youth
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Finite Grasp Infinity
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Author Himself Poet Theft Victory
Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
JOHN DRYDEN

Best Give Up Knowledge Nature Production True
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
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
Pity melts the mind to love.
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Love Mindset Pity
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Glitter Gold
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
JOHN DRYDEN

Age Alone Enough Reason Strong Walk Youth

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