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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.

John Dryden

Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Beautiful Language Oneself
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Elegant Flower Heaven Western
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Plate Time Writing
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Music Passion Raise
Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Death Finding Love Time Way
The winds are out of breath.
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Breathe Wind
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
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
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Freedom Man Nature Run Savage Wild
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Himself Scene
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth

Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.

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