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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.

John Dryden

The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Brave Chance Man Subject
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
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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Divine Faculty Force God Kind Man Philosophy
Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Death Finding Love Time Way
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
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Benefit Fate Pleasure Relate Sorrow Time
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Desire Hands Nature Sick Sin
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Cheap Death Fame
A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
JOHN DRYDEN

Cheating Man Passion Reason Truth
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
War is the trade of kings.
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King One Liner Trade War
Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
JOHN DRYDEN

Friendship Tears
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
JOHN DRYDEN

Blind Willing Zeal

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