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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.

John Dryden

So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering
Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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Heaven Praise Prayer Promise
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Goodness Myself Talk Truth
Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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Himself Judgement Praise Theme
While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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Day Eyes Round Shade Sight Soul
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
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
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
Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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Boast Born Death End Journey Live Man Place Sincere
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Grace Strength
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Dance Foot Poetry
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad

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