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.
JOHN DRYDENSculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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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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Virtue is her own reward.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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