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But how can finite grasp Infinity?

John Dryden

We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Adversity Grief Misery Wicket
Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Discover Future Glide Haste Length Past
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
JOHN DRYDEN

Choice Fate Love
Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
JOHN DRYDEN

Lost Mild Rage Sea Wind
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
JOHN DRYDEN

Courage Mindset Presence Success
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
JOHN DRYDEN

Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad
If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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Honor Judgement Man Member Mistake Order
Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Hate Love Politics
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Myself Old Power Remember
Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Nature Obligation Response Trust
A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
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Character Kind Man Natural Painting Person Poetry
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Authors Enthusiasm Expectation Truth
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Hate Home Name Peace Soul
Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Crime Oblivion

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