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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.

John Dryden

An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Believe Children Direction Education Lost Man
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Advise Sick
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Lying Myself Wife
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Age Empty Experience Known Start World
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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Continue End Goodness Grace Principal Virtue
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Fragile Love Mindset
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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Day Eyes Round Shade Sight Soul
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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Desire Hands Nature Sick Sin
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
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Character Kind Man Natural Painting Person Poetry
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Believe Faith Grace Reward See Strength
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Numerous Talk Thinking

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