There is a proud modesty in merit.
JOHN DRYDENFiction 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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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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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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Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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