Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
JOHN DRYDENSatire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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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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Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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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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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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