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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.

John Dryden

Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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Empty Enough Fortune Myself Soul
At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Hate Home Name Peace Soul
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Genius Gift Happy Nature
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Life Past
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Charge Mindset Revenge Sharp
Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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Friendship Love Price Time Treat
Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Crime Oblivion
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
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Myself Poverty Soul Virtue Warm
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
The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Excitement Loud
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
JOHN DRYDEN

Hope Life Live Pleasure Run Thinking
Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
JOHN DRYDEN

Choice Delight Evil Lying Object Truth Understand

The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.

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