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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.

John Dryden

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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Action Essence Fiction Human Poetry Story
Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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Emotion Enthusiasm Height Imagination Paint Poet Soul
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Fly Joy Youth
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
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Beautiful Dangerous Surface Way
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Believe Children Direction Education Lost Man
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Goodness Ignorance Nature Reason Right World
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Believe Easy Invisible Mindset Unknown
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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Anger Cherish Disappear Forget

There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.

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