If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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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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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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