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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.

John Dryden

Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Action Essence Fiction Human Poetry Story
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Best Kind Ourselves Steal
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Believe Easy Invisible Mindset Unknown
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store
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
The winds are out of breath.
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Breathe Wind
Pity melts the mind to love.
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Love Mindset Pity
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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Growth Myself Reputation Young
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
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.
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Follow Natural Obligation Paint Rock Sculptor
Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Future Heart State Tongue Tremble
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Believe Faith Grace Reward See Strength
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Art Nature Teaching
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Music Passion Raise
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Instrument Laughter Man Rate

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