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Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

John Dryden

Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Age Distant Force Herself Nature Poet
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Finite Grasp Infinity
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Thinking Unknown Whistle
They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Happiness Live
But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Cure Love
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Plate Time Writing
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Courage Growth Heart
For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Design God Mindset Ruin
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
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.
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Better Health Himself Man Work
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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Admire Drama Father Himself Home Poet Writing

Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

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Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

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