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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.

John Dryden

Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Elegant Flower Heaven Western
Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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Heaven Praise Prayer Promise
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
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Evidence Passion Reason Rule Weakness
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Delight Freedom Human Kind
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
The winds are out of breath.
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Breathe Wind
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Dreams Forget Forward Mindset Time
So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Death Dreams Heaven Herself Life Success
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Equality Life Live Right
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire

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