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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.

John Dryden

Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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Fair Fate Myself Possession Rain Shine Time
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Greatness Treason Trust
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Errors Flow Gratitude Surface
Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
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Best Give Up Knowledge Nature Production True
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Evidence Passion Reason Rule Weakness
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
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
Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Death Finding Love Time Way
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War
For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Bound Drink Food Live Power Thinking
A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Cheating Man Passion Reason Truth
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
The conscience of a people is their power.
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Conscience People Power
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness

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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