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.
JOHN DRYDENLove reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Since 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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Merit challenges envy.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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