Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
JOHN DRYDENSince every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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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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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
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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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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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