Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
JOHN DRYDENYouth, 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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Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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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.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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By education most have been misled.
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