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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!

John Dryden

Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Lying Myself Wife
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Face Need See Truth
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Creation Dew Greatness Himself Morning Spirit
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
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
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Degree River Sea
Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Equality Life Live Right
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Bound Habit Slave Vice
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Grace Strength

Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!

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