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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.

John Dryden

Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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Empty Enough Fortune Myself Soul
Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Death Finding Love Time Way
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Affection Goodness Grace Principal
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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Bound Habit Slave Vice
Love is love’s reward.
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Love One Liner Reward
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Myself Old Power Remember
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Defense Law Nature
Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Himself Loss See Vice
Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Action Beautiful Fall Grace Himself People Wrong Youth
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Genius Gift Happy Nature
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject

For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.

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