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What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?

John Dryden

Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Music Passion Raise
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
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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Corruption Faith Freedom Need Scripture Sufficient
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
JOHN DRYDEN

Confidence Fact Known
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fresh Object Pity Sight
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Age Empty Experience Known Start World
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Build Destroy
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Friendship Tears
Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Crime Murder Punishment Time
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Greatness Treason Trust
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Dance Foot Poetry
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
JOHN DRYDEN

Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
JOHN DRYDEN

Best Give Up Knowledge Nature Production True
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 DRYDEN

Heaven Praise Prayer Promise

What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?

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