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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.

John Dryden

Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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Heaven Praise Prayer Promise
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Hold Last Sweet
Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Criticism Revenge Writing
The conscience of a people is their power.
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Conscience People Power
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Age Writing
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Alone Day Happiness Live Man Myself Secure Worst
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Care Destroy Happiness Man Thinking
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Brave Chance Man Subject
By education most have been misled.
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Direction Education One Liner
Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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Choice Delight Evil Lying Object Truth Understand
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect

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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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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