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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.

John Dryden

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
But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Cure Love
They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Happiness Live
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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Fair Fate Myself Possession Rain Shine Time
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
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Live Lost Luxury People Public
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Beautiful Language Oneself
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Race Run Swift Time
Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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Lost Mild Rage Sea Wind
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
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Authors Enthusiasm Expectation Truth
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Age Writing
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
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
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Goodness Myself Talk Truth
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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Continue End Goodness Grace Principal Virtue
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
For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Design God Mindset Ruin

Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.

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