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Repentance is but want of power to sin.

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

John Dryden
Power, Want, Sin
'Palamon and Arcite' (1700) bk. 3, l. 813

Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.

John Dryden
Greatness, Desire, Sin
John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.232

Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.

John Dryden
Loss, Vices, Sin
John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (1995). “The Poems of John Dryden: 1693-1696”, p.163, Pearson Education

She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.

John Dryden
Fear, Sin, Danger
John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.388, Pearson Education

Having mourned your sin, for outward Eden lost, find paradise within.

John Dryden
Eden, Paradise, Sin
John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.2848, Delphi Classics

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