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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

John Dryden

Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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Emotion Enthusiasm Height Imagination Paint Poet Soul
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
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
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Age Empty Experience Known Start World
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
Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Favorite Heaven Man
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
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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One Liner Power Regret Sin
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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Estate Himself Misery Money Sell Soul
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
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
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Fight King Mad Man Praise
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
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
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave
When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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Cheat Day False Fools Life
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Goodness Ignorance Nature Reason Right World
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Fake King Necessary Ruin True

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

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