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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.

John Dryden

Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Dreams Forget Forward Mindset Time
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Plate Time Writing
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Age Genius Kind Live Study Universe
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Live Lost Luxury People Public
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
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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Honor Judgement Man Member Mistake Order
For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Design God Mindset Ruin
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Crime Oblivion
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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Creation Earth Eyes Man Mom Sky Soft
Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Crime Murder Punishment Time
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Dance Foot Poetry
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Fake King Necessary Ruin True
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Greatness Treason Trust
While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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Day Eyes Round Shade Sight Soul
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
Pity melts the mind to love.
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Love Mindset Pity
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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One Liner Power Regret Sin
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
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Elegant Flower Heaven Western
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
War is the trade of kings.
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King One Liner Trade War
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Affection Goodness Grace Principal
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Action Essence Fiction Human Poetry Story
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Pain Pleasure Sweet
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True

He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.

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