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Sculptors 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.

John Dryden

I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Brown Easy Light Night
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Alone Day Happiness Live Man Myself Secure Worst
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Block Government Time
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Different Fools Love Mindset Wisdom
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
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Infidelity Mysterious Thinking
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Advise Sick
Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Friendship Tears
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Empire Power Trust
Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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Admire Drama Father Himself Home Poet Writing
War is the trade of kings.
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King One Liner Trade War
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Death Finding Love Time Way
Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Crime Oblivion
Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Hate Love Politics
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
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
JOHN DRYDEN

Believe Easy Invisible Mindset Unknown
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Dance Foot Poetry
They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Happiness Live
To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
JOHN DRYDEN

Common Death Devil Evil

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