John Dryden Quotes About Heaven
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age, When no man dies for love, but on the stage.
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The good we have enjoyed from Heaven's free will, and shall we murmur to endure the ill?
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In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, Ere one to one was cursedly confin'd: When Nature prompted, and no Law deni'd Promiscuous use of concubine and bride; Then, Israel's monarch, after Heaven's own heart, His vigorous warmth did variously impart To wives and slaves: and, wide as his command, Scatter'd his Maker's image through the land.
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Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the chief, when fortune owns the cause.
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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye.
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Good Heaven, whose darling attribute we find is boundless grace, and mercy to mankind, abhors the cruel.
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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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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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From plots and treasons Heaven preserve my years, But save me most from my petitioners. Unsatiate as the barren womb or grave; God cannot grant so much as they can crave.
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Pleasure never comes sincere to man; but lent by heaven upon hard usury.
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For mysterious things of faith, rely on the proponent, Heaven's authority.
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