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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

John Dryden

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Evidence Passion Reason Rule Weakness
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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Heaven Praise Prayer Promise
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Ideas Nature Pleasure View
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Happiness Live
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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Follow Natural Obligation Paint Rock Sculptor
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Cheating Favor Fools Hope Life
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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Hope Life Live Pleasure Run Thinking
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
The conscience of a people is their power.
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Conscience People Power
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Children Crave Growth Man
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
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Character Kind Man Natural Painting Person Poetry
A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Cheating Man Passion Reason Truth
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Death End Grave Kind Mourn
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Desire God Greatness Sin
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Brave Chance Man Subject
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Dance Foot Poetry
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Grace Strength
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Numerous Talk Thinking
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Believe Conquer
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
JOHN DRYDEN

Beautiful Language Oneself

Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

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