It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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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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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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But love’s a malady without a cure.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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