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None but the brave deserve the fair.

John Dryden

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
What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Dew Precious Pursue Track Young
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering
Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
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Best Give Up Knowledge Nature Production True
Order is the greatest grace.
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Greatness One Liner Order Peace
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
Men 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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Children Crave Growth Man
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Common Death Devil Evil
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Hold Last Sweet
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
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

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