Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
JOHN DRYDENBut how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
JOHN DRYDENGood sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Merit challenges envy.
JOHN DRYDENMerit challenges envy.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
JOHN DRYDENParting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
JOHN DRYDENHe who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
JOHN DRYDENOnly man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
JOHN DRYDENBut how can finite grasp Infinity?
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None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
JOHN DRYDENNone would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
JOHN DRYDENNone but the brave deserve the fair.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
JOHN DRYDENIll habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
JOHN DRYDENA man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
JOHN DRYDENSince every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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War is the trade of kings.
JOHN DRYDENWar is the trade of kings.
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