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John Dryden

Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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Emotion Enthusiasm Height Imagination Paint Poet Soul
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
JOHN DRYDEN

Live Lost Luxury People Public
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Race Run Swift Time
What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Dew Precious Pursue Track Young
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Face Need See Truth
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
JOHN DRYDEN

Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Advise Sick
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Enemy Forgiveness Greatness Injury Power Soul Time
There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Gift Modesty Proud Time
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Finite Grasp Infinity
Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Nature Obligation Response Trust
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
JOHN DRYDEN

Adversity Grief Misery Wicket

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