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Love is love’s reward.

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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Emotion Enthusiasm Height Imagination Paint Poet Soul
To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Common Death Devil Evil
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection
They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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Authority Better General Man Opinion Understand
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
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
The winds are out of breath.
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Breathe Wind
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
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
JOHN DRYDEN

Goodness Happiness Instrument Laughter Man Rate
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Cheap Death Fame
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
JOHN DRYDEN

Grace Strength

Love is love’s reward.

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