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Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.

John Dryden

A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Cheating Man Passion Reason Truth
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Face Need See Truth
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
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
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Numerous Talk Thinking
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
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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Creation Earth Eyes Man Mom Sky Soft
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Glitter Gold
And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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Corruption Faith Freedom Need Scripture Sufficient
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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Follow Natural Obligation Paint Rock Sculptor
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Believe Children Direction Education Lost Man
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence

Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.

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Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.

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