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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

Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Equality Life Live Right
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Block Government Time
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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Action Beautiful Fall Grace Himself People Wrong Youth
Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Charge Mindset Revenge Sharp
The conscience of a people is their power.
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Conscience People Power
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Build Destroy
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Art Nature Teaching
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Affection Goodness Grace Principal
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Face Need See Truth
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Glitter Gold
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Evidence Passion Reason Rule Weakness

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

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