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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.

John Dryden

Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Himself Loss See Vice
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War
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
If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Live Past Remember Thankful
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Block Government Time
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
JOHN DRYDEN

Follow Natural Obligation Paint Rock Sculptor
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Character Habit Inspirational Nature Ourselves
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Desire God Greatness Sin
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Ideas Nature Pleasure View
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Criticism Revenge Writing
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
JOHN DRYDEN

Cheap Death Fame

Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.

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