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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.

John Dryden

Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Fight King Mad Man Praise
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Elegant Flower Heaven Western
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Myself Old Power Remember
Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Future Heart State Tongue Tremble
I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Fight Myself Rise Wound
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Live Lost Luxury People Public
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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Desire Hands Nature Sick Sin
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection
Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Crime Murder Punishment Time
A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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Conscience Goodness Image Man Reflection Water
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
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Divine Faculty Force God Kind Man Philosophy
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
JOHN DRYDEN

Forgiveness Injury Wrong

He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.

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