Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
JOHN DRYDENSince a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
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Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
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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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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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War is the trade of kings.
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