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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.

John Dryden

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad
And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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Corruption Faith Freedom Need Scripture Sufficient
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Delight Freedom Human Kind
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
There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Gift Modesty Proud Time
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Instrument Laughter Man Rate
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Age Distant Force Herself Nature Poet
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Goodness Myself Talk Truth
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Grace Strength
Love is love’s reward.
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Love One Liner Reward
Since 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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Best Give Up Knowledge Nature Production True
Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Discover Future Glide Haste Length Past
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fight King Mad Man Praise

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