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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.

John Dryden

Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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Lost Mild Rage Sea Wind
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Care Destroy Happiness Man Thinking
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word
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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Eagle Fools Mount Myself Wings
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Affection Goodness Grace Principal
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
JOHN DRYDEN

Authors Enthusiasm Expectation Truth
But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Desire Hands Nature Sick Sin
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Fly Joy Youth
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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Follow Natural Obligation Paint Rock Sculptor

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