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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.

John Dryden

Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
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
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Grace Strength
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Benefit Fate Pleasure Relate Sorrow Time
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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God Goodness Love Thinking World
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Brown Easy Light Night
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
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

All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.

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