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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

I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Freedom Man Nature Run Savage Wild
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Desire God Greatness Sin
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Freedom Subject Thrive
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
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
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Death Dreams Heaven Herself Life Success
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Fools One Liner Patriot
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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Better Health Himself Man Work
Pity melts the mind to love.
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Love Mindset Pity
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
JOHN DRYDEN

Myself Old Power Remember

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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