Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
JOHN DRYDENFor your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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