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Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.

John Dryden

Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Beginning Growth Small
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Greatness Treason Trust
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Care Destroy Happiness Man Thinking
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Advantage Modesty Proud
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Face Need See Truth
Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Crime Oblivion
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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Ideas Nature Pleasure View
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Life Man Origin Virtue Word
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow

Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.

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