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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.

John Dryden

The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Race Run Swift Time
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Fools One Liner Patriot
Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
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Best Give Up Knowledge Nature Production True
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Divine Faculty Force God Kind Man Philosophy
If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Judgement People Thinking Understand Wrong
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
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
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
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
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Care Destroy Happiness Man Thinking
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Genius Gift Happy Nature

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