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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.

John Dryden

Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Believe Faith Grace Reward See Strength
At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Hate Home Name Peace Soul
Pity melts the mind to love.
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Love Mindset Pity
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Elegant Flower Heaven Western
Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Action Beautiful Fall Grace Himself People Wrong Youth
Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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Admire Drama Father Himself Home Poet Writing
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Greatness Treason Trust
Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Nature Obligation Response Trust
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
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
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Face Need See Truth
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Fly Joy Youth
All heiresses are beautiful.
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Beautiful One Liner
If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
JOHN DRYDEN

Live Past Remember Thankful

Swift was the race, but short the time to run.

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