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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.

John Dryden

Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
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
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Fortune Madness Prudence Rule
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Believe Children Direction Education Lost Man
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Numerous Talk Thinking
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

Fair Fate Myself Possession Rain Shine Time
Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Equality Life Live Right
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Devotion Ignorance Mom Myself Yourself
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
JOHN DRYDEN

Elegant Flower Heaven Western
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Age Distant Force Herself Nature Poet
Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Crime Oblivion
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fake Lying Silence

When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.

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