Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
JOHN DRYDENDreams 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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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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