When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
JOHN DRYDENSatire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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By education most have been misled.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
JOHN DRYDEN