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Repentance is but want of power to sin.

John Dryden

Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Action Essence Fiction Human Poetry Story
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
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
Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Discover Future Glide Haste Length Past
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Genius Gift Happy Nature
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Fury Man Patience
While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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Day Eyes Round Shade Sight Soul
Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Himself Loss See Vice
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
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
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.
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Heaven Praise Prayer Promise
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

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