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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.

John Dryden

Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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Finding Himself Imperfection Mistake Secret
So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Death Dreams Heaven Herself Life Success
None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Brave Deserve Fair
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Fake Happiness Thinking Trust
Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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Friendship Love Price Time Treat
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Finite Grasp Infinity
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Life Man Origin Virtue Word
They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Happiness Live
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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Growth Myself Reputation Young
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Glitter Gold
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Conversation One Liner Soul
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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Creation Earth Eyes Man Mom Sky Soft
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Degree River Sea
They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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Authority Better General Man Opinion Understand
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Lying Myself Wife
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Elegant Flower Heaven Western
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
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Author Himself Poet Theft Victory

Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.

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