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.
JOHN DRYDENOrder is the greatest grace.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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