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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.

John Dryden

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
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Age Writing
The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Excitement Loud
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Genius Gift Happy Nature
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Face Need See Truth
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
JOHN DRYDEN

Adventure First Forgiveness Reason Rule
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
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
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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Fair Fate Myself Possession Rain Shine Time
Order is the greatest grace.
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Greatness One Liner Order Peace
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
JOHN DRYDEN

Dance Foot Poetry

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