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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.

John Dryden

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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Emotion Enthusiasm Height Imagination Paint Poet Soul
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
Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Life Past
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Age Genius Kind Live Study Universe
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Age Writing
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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Anger Cherish Disappear Forget
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave
A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Cheating Man Passion Reason Truth
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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Beautiful Dangerous Surface Way
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
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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Action Essence Fiction Human Poetry Story
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Advise Sick

Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.

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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.

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