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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.

John Dryden

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
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Freedom Subject Thrive
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
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Live Lost Luxury People Public
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Desire God Greatness Sin
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Himself Loss See Vice
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Dew Precious Pursue Track Young
Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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Admire Drama Father Himself Home Poet Writing
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
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
Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Courage Growth Heart
For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Bound Drink Food Live Power Thinking
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth

But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.

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