Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
JOHN DRYDENZeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Merit challenges envy.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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By education most have been misled.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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