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.
JOHN DRYDENEvery language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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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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Love is love’s reward.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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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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Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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