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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

John Dryden

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
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Age Alone Enough Reason Strong Walk Youth
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Beautiful Language Oneself
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools
Hushed as midnight silence.
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One Liner Silence
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Believe Faith Grace Reward See Strength
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Live Lost Luxury People Public
For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Believe Conquer
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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Continue End Goodness Grace Principal Virtue
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Music Passion Raise
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
Pity melts the mind to love.
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Love Mindset Pity
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
By education most have been misled.
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Direction Education One Liner
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
JOHN DRYDEN

Age Writing

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