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By education most have been misled.

John Dryden

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
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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Fortune Madness Prudence Rule
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
All heiresses are beautiful.
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Beautiful One Liner
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
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
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Fragile Love Mindset
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Age Writing
If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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God Goodness Love Thinking World
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word
Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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Boast Born Death End Journey Live Man Place Sincere
Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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Creation Earth Eyes Man Mom Sky Soft
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Creation Dew Greatness Himself Morning Spirit
Order is the greatest grace.
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Greatness One Liner Order Peace
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
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Different Fools Love Mindset Wisdom
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Fly Joy Youth
Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Charge Mindset Revenge Sharp
Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Age Night Old Ourselves
Love is love’s reward.
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Love One Liner Reward
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
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

By education most have been misled.

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