But, when to Sin our byast Nature leans, The carefull Devil is still at hand with means; And providently Pimps for ill desires: The Good old Cause re… - John Dryden

But, when to Sin our byast Nature leans,
The carefull Devil is still at hand with means.
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Ama yanlı Tabiatımız günaha meylettiği zaman
Gerekli araçlarla çıkagelir uyanık Şeytan.

Plots, true or false, are necessary things,
To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.

And threat'ning France, plac'd like a painted Jove,
Kept idle thunder in his lifted hand.

I strongly wish for what I faintly hope; like the daydreams of melancholy men, I think and think in things impossible, yet love to wander in that golden maze.

Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars
To lonely, weary, wandering travellers
Is reason to the soul; and as on high
Those rolling fires discover but the sky
Not light us here, so reason's glimmering ray
Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way,
But guide us upward to a better day:
And as those nightly tapers disappear
When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere,
So pale grows reason at religion's sight, So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light.