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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.

John Dryden

Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Believe Faith Grace Reward See Strength
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
JOHN DRYDEN

Different Fools Love Mindset Wisdom
A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Cheating Man Passion Reason Truth
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Race Run Swift Time
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
JOHN DRYDEN

Brown Easy Light Night
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
JOHN DRYDEN

Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fear Learning Lesson
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Children Crave Growth Man
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
JOHN DRYDEN

Eyes Heaven Nature
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
JOHN DRYDEN

Age Writing
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
JOHN DRYDEN

Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
JOHN DRYDEN

Judgment People True
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
JOHN DRYDEN

Better Health Himself Man Work
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
JOHN DRYDEN

Criticism Revenge Writing
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
JOHN DRYDEN

Finite Grasp Infinity

There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.

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