John Dryden - The Hind and the Panther

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Of all the tyrannies on human kind
The worst is that which persecutes the mind.

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Much malice mingled with a little wit
Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.

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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense
Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.

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My manhood, long misled by wandering fires,
Followed false lights.

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Than a successive title long and dark,
Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark.

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For truth has such a face and such a mien
As to be loved needs only to be seen.

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And kind as kings upon their coronation day.

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By education most have been misled;
So they believe, because they so were bred.
The priest continues what the nurse began,
And thus the child imposes on the man.

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For those whom God to ruin has designed,
He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.

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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.

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T' abhor the makers, and their laws approve,
Is to hate traitors and the treason love.

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She fear'd no danger, for she knew no sin.

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For present joys are more to flesh and blood
Than a dull prospect of a distant good.

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Reason to rule, but mercy to forgive:
The first is law, the last prerogative.

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As long as words a different sense will bear,
And each may be his own interpreter,
Our airy faith will no foundation find;
The word's a weathercock for every wind.

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The sun was enter'd into Capricorn; Which, by their bad astronomer's account, That week the Virgin Balance should remount.

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