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All objects lose by too familiar a view.

John Dryden

A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Believe Easy Invisible Mindset Unknown
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
By education most have been misled.
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Direction Education One Liner
All heiresses are beautiful.
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Beautiful One Liner
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Advise Sick
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Ideas Nature Pleasure View
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Fake Happiness Thinking Trust
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Author Himself Poet Theft Victory
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Cheap Death Fame
Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Age Night Old Ourselves
Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Crime Oblivion
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
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Fury Man Patience
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

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