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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

John Dryden

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
Hushed as midnight silence.
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One Liner Silence
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
Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Crime Murder Punishment Time
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Believe Easy Invisible Mindset Unknown
Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Beware Man Patience
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Dance Foot Poetry
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Infidelity Mysterious Thinking
When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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Cheat Day False Fools Life
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
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Age Distant Force Herself Nature Poet
If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Live Past Remember Thankful
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Glitter Gold
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine

For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

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