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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

John Dryden

Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Age Genius Kind Live Study Universe
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
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
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
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Brave Deserve Fair
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: 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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Live Myself Past Power Rain Shine Worst
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Music Passion Raise
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Greatness Treason Trust
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Beginning Growth Small
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Believe Easy Invisible Mindset Unknown
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Evidence Passion Reason Rule Weakness
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
JOHN DRYDEN

Bitter Poem Satire
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
JOHN DRYDEN

Genius Gift Happy Nature

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

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