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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.

John Dryden

Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Freedom Subject Thrive
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Hold Last Sweet
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Creation Dew Greatness Himself Morning Spirit
All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Empire Power Trust
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
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Genius Gift Happy Nature
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Himself Loss See Vice
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Cheap Death Fame
A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
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Character Kind Man Natural Painting Person Poetry
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Music Passion Raise

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