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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

John Dryden

Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Authors Enthusiasm Expectation Truth
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Action Essence Fiction Human Poetry Story
Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Beware Man Patience
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Age Writing
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Art Nature Teaching
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Age Genius Kind Live Study Universe
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Himself Man Paradise Sin Sorrow Woman
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Glitter Gold
None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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Hope Life Live Pleasure Run Thinking
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
JOHN DRYDEN

Estate Himself Misery Money Sell Soul
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Freedom Subject Thrive
Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
JOHN DRYDEN

Creation Earth Eyes Man Mom Sky Soft
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
JOHN DRYDEN

Brought Impossible Need Perfection

For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

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