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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

John Dryden

Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Age Writing
Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Favorite Heaven Man
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
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Forgiveness Injury Wrong
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Cure Love
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
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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Cheat Day False Fools Life
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
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Fragile Love Mindset
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
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
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature

Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

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