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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 Dryden

Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Desire God Greatness Sin
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Believe Conquer
He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Thinking Unknown Whistle
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Age Writing
Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Fury Man Patience
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Evidence Passion Reason Rule Weakness
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Age Alone Enough Reason Strong Walk Youth
A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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Conscience Goodness Image Man Reflection Water
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Care Destroy Happiness Man Thinking
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Age Distant Force Herself Nature Poet
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince

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.

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