But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
JOHN DRYDENShakespeare 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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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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