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

John Dryden

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
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Death End Grave Kind Mourn
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
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Music Passion Raise
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Pain Pleasure Sweet
Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Defense Law Nature
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Art Nature Teaching
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Finite Grasp Infinity
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Devotion Ignorance Mom Myself Yourself
For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Design God Mindset Ruin
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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Anger Cherish Disappear Forget

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