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We by art unteach what Nature taught.

John Dryden

For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Devotion Ignorance Mom Myself Yourself
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Best Silence Suffering Time
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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Friendship Love Price Time Treat
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Author Himself Poet Theft Victory
They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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Authority Better General Man Opinion Understand
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Evidence Passion Reason Rule Weakness
Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Discover Future Glide Haste Length Past
Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
JOHN DRYDEN

Criticism Revenge Writing
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Goodness Myself Talk Truth
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise

We by art unteach what Nature taught.

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