By education most have been misled.
JOHN DRYDENHim of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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