A happy genius is the gift of nature.
JOHN DRYDENHe look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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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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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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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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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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