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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.

John Dryden

Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Authors Enthusiasm Expectation Truth
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Different Fools Love Mindset Wisdom
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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One Liner Power Regret Sin
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Dance Foot Poetry
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Affection Goodness Grace Principal
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Beautiful Language Oneself
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Genius Gift Happy Nature
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
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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Eagle Fools Mount Myself Wings
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Life Man Origin Virtue Word
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Finite Grasp Infinity
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
There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Advantage Modesty Proud
Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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Friendship Love Price Time Treat

There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.

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