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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.

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
Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Goodness Ignorance Nature Reason Right World
At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Hate Home Name Peace Soul
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Lying Myself Wife
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
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Fake King Necessary Ruin True
If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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Honor Judgement Man Member Mistake Order
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Benefit Fate Pleasure Relate Sorrow Time
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
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
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Death Dreams Heaven Herself Life Success

Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.

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