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Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.

John Dryden

He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fountain Goodness Sense
Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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Emotion Enthusiasm Height Imagination Paint Poet Soul
If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
JOHN DRYDEN

Live Past Remember Thankful
Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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Choice Delight Evil Lying Object Truth Understand
For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Believe Conquer
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Affection Goodness Grace Principal
A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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Conscience Goodness Image Man Reflection Water
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Devotion Ignorance Mom Myself Yourself
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fresh Object Pity Sight
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Degree River Sea
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Advise Sick
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
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fake Happiness Thinking Trust
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
JOHN DRYDEN

Desire God Greatness Sin

Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.

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Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.

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