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John Dryden

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
Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Equality Life Live Right
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Devotion Ignorance Mom Myself Yourself
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Plate Time Writing
Love is love’s reward.
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Love One Liner Reward
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Best Silence Suffering Time
For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Design God Mindset Ruin
Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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Eyes Feeling Ourselves Soul Tender Togetherness Touch
And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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Corruption Faith Freedom Need Scripture Sufficient
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Myself Old Power Remember
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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One Liner Power Regret Sin
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Goodness Myself Talk Truth
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
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Age Empty Experience Known Start World
Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Life Past

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