If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
JOHN DRYDENThree 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.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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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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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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