A happy genius is the gift of nature.
JOHN DRYDENMen are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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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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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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War is the trade of kings.
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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