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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!

John Dryden

And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Plate Time Writing
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Act Generous Greatness Pleasure Secret
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation
They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Happiness Live
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
JOHN DRYDEN

Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Believe Faith Grace Reward See Strength
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
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
JOHN DRYDEN

Goodness Happiness Instrument Laughter Man Rate
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
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
The winds are out of breath.
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Breathe Wind
Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
JOHN DRYDEN

Age Night Old Ourselves
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
JOHN DRYDEN

Cheating Favor Fools Hope Life
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
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
JOHN DRYDEN

Judgment People True
Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
JOHN DRYDEN

Courage Growth Heart

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