Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
JOHN DRYDENEvery 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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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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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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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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