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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.

John Dryden

Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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Creation Earth Eyes Man Mom Sky Soft
What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Dew Precious Pursue Track Young
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
JOHN DRYDEN

Eagle Fools Mount Myself Wings
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Evidence Passion Reason Rule Weakness
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
Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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Friendship Love Price Time Treat
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Brown Easy Light Night
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow

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