Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
JOHN DRYDENAll delays are dangerous in war.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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