O freedom, first delight of human kind!
JOHN DRYDENOur souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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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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When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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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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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Love is love’s reward.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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