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They that possess the prince possess the laws.

John Dryden

Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Criticism Revenge Writing
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Errors Flow Gratitude Surface
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Courage Growth Heart
Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Life Past
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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Choice Delight Evil Lying Object Truth Understand
Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Discover Future Glide Haste Length Past
A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
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Character Kind Man Natural Painting Person Poetry
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Delight Freedom Human Kind
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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Ideas Nature Pleasure View

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