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Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

John Dryden

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
JOHN DRYDEN

Love Pain Pleasure
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
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Children Crave Growth Man
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
The winds are out of breath.
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Breathe Wind
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Action Beautiful Fall Grace Himself People Wrong Youth
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
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Beginning Growth Small
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Plate Time Writing
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
JOHN DRYDEN

Follow Natural Obligation Paint Rock Sculptor
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
JOHN DRYDEN

Desire Hungry Liberty Store

Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

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