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We by art unteach what Nature taught.

John Dryden

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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Emotion Enthusiasm Height Imagination Paint Poet Soul
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
But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Cure Love
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Beginning Growth Small
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Benefit Fate Pleasure Relate Sorrow Time
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Himself Scene
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Glitter Gold
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Best Silence Suffering Time
Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
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Best Give Up Knowledge Nature Production True
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Plate Time Writing
Love is love’s reward.
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Love One Liner Reward
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Age Alone Enough Reason Strong Walk Youth

We by art unteach what Nature taught.

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