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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.

John Dryden

For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Design God Mindset Ruin
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Myself Poverty Soul Virtue Warm
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Bold Fear Greatness Mask
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Fragile Love Mindset
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Art Nature Teaching
If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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Honor Judgement Man Member Mistake Order
To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Common Death Devil Evil
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Gift Heaven Liberty Life Love
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Elegant Flower Heaven Western
Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Courage Growth Heart
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Greatness Treason Trust
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
JOHN DRYDEN

Death Fear Known

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