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Repentance is but want of power to sin.

John Dryden

A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
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Character Kind Man Natural Painting Person Poetry
The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Excitement Loud
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Brave Deserve Fair
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
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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Finding Himself Imperfection Mistake Secret
I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Fight Myself Rise Wound
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Music Passion Raise
War is the trade of kings.
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King One Liner Trade War
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Brave Chance Man Subject
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Different Fools Love Mindset Wisdom
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Finite Grasp Infinity
None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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Hope Life Live Pleasure Run Thinking
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

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