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.
JOHN DRYDENIll habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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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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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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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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By education most have been misled.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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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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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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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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