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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.

John Dryden

Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Pain Pleasure Sweet
But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Cure Love
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Fools One Liner Patriot
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
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
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Himself Master Secret Servant Trust
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Death End Grave Kind Mourn
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Gift Heaven Liberty Life Love
Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Favorite Heaven Man
Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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Lost Mild Rage Sea Wind
A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
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Character Kind Man Natural Painting Person Poetry
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
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
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools

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