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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.

John Dryden

Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Bound Habit Slave Vice
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
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Crime Oblivion
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Elegant Flower Heaven Western
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Errors Flow Gratitude Surface
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Music Passion Raise
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Fight Myself Rise Wound
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Myself Poverty Soul Virtue Warm
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain

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