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Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.
Topic: Ability
Source: Alexander's Feast (l. 160)
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; every little absence is an age.
Topic: Absence
Source: None
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But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand,
And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.
Topic: Ambition
Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 198)
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Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on
your way down.
Topic: Ambition
Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 198)
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
Topic: Anger
Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 1005)
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Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Topic: Anger
Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 1005)
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Beware the fury of a patient man. -John Dryden.
Topic: Anger
Source: None
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Beware of the fury of the patient man. -John Dryden.
Topic: Anger
Source: None
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
Topic: Appearance
Source: Hind and the Panther
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The habit does not make the monk.
[Lat., Cucullus (or Cuculla) non facit monachum.]
Topic: Appearance
Source: Hind and the Panther
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Keen appetite
And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
Topic: Appetite
Source: Cleomenes (act IV, sc. 1)
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A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.
Topic: Argument
Source: Amphitryon (act I, sc. 1)
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Thespis, the first professor of our art,
At country wakes snug ballads from a cart.
Topic: Ballads
Source: Prologue to Sophonisba
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Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit,
The power of beauty I remember yet,
Which once inflam'd my soul, and still inspires my wit.
Topic: Beauty
Source: Cymon and Iphigenia (l. 1)
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When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!
Topic: Beauty
Source: Cymon and Iphigenia (l. 41)
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Fortune befriends the bold.
Topic: Boldness
Source: None
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The god-like hero sate
On his imperial throne:
His valiant peers were placed around,
Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound
(So should desert in arms be crowned).
The lovely Thais by his side,
Sate like a blooming Eastern bride
In flower of youth and beauty's pride.
Happy, happy, happy pair!
None but the brave,
None but the brave,
None but the brave deserve the fair.
Topic: Bravery
Source: Alexander's Feast (st. 1)
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The brave man seeks not popular applause,
Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause;
Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can,
Force is of brutes, but honor is of man.
Topic: Bravery
Source: Palamon and Arcite (bk. III, l. 2015)
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Swear, food, or starve; for the dilemma's even;
A tradesman thou! and hope to go to heaven?
Topic: Business
Source: Persius (sat. V, l. 204)
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He's a sure card.
Topic: Cards
Source: The Spanish Friar (act II, sc. 2)
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Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730 The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride, and worldly honor.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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For they conquer who believe they can.
Topic: Confidence
Source: None
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Topic: Contentment
Source: None
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Ever a glutton, at another's cost,
But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.
Topic: Cookery
Source: Fourth Satire of Persius (l. 58)
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Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.
Topic: Courage
Source: Amphitryon (act III, sc. 1)
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Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors.
Topic: Criticism
Source: Dedication of translations from Ovid
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They who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write,
Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
Topic: Criticism
Source: Prologue to Conquest of Granada
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All who (like him) have writ ill plays before,
For they, like thieves, condemned, are hangman made,
To execute the members of their trade.
Topic: Criticism
Source: Prologue to Rival Queens
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But Esau's hands suit ill with Jacob's voice.
Topic: Deceit
Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 982)
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Drawn to the dregs of a democracy.
Topic: Democracy
Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 227)
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God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are
self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly
self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his
Maker, divine Truth and Love.
Topic: Democracy
Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 227)
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Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only
demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for
ourselves.
Topic: Democracy
Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 227)
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions--it only
guarantees equality of opportunity.
Topic: Democracy
Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 227)
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And after hearing what our Church can say,
If still our reason runs another way,
That private reason 'tis more just to curb,
Than by disputes the public peace disturb;
For points obscure are of small use to learn,
But common quiet is mankind's concern.
Topic: Doctrine
Source: Religio Laici (l. 445)
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As when the dove returning bore the mark
Of earth restored to the long labouring ark;
The relics of mankind, secure at rest,
Open every window to receive the guest,
And the fair bearer of the message bless'd.
Topic: Doves
Source: To Her Grace of Ormond (l. 70)
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Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes;
When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.
Topic: Dreams
Source: Fables--The Cock and the Fox (l. 325)
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Not aw'd to duty by superior sway.
Topic: Duty
Source: Eleonora (l. 178)
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Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need;
For 'tis impossible you should proceed.
Topic: Duty
Source: To Mr. Congreve, on his Comedy "The Double Dealer"
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The true Amphitryon.
Topic: Eating
Source: Amphitryon (act IV, sc. 1)
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By education most have been misled.
Topic: Education
Source: Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 389)
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Topic: Education
Source: Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 389)
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Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has
learned in school.
Topic: Education
Source: Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 389)
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It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For
that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from
books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is
not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think
something that cannot be learned from textbooks.
Topic: Education
Source: Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 389)
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The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Topic: Education
Source: Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 389)
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Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail,
Our lion now will foreign foes assail.
Topic: England
Source: Astroea Redux (l. 117)
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This comes of altering fundamental laws and overpersuading by his
landlord to take physic (of which he died) for the benefit of the
doctor--Stavo bene (was written on his monument) ma per star
meglio, sto qui.
Topic: Epitaphs
Source: Dedication of the Aeneid (XIV, 149)
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Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls, must dive below.
Topic: Errors
Source: All for Love (prologue)
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To take up half on trust, and half to try,
Name it not faith but bungling bigotry.
Topic: Faith
Source: The Hind and the Panther (pt. I, l. 141)
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
Topic: Familiarity
Source: None
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All human things are subject to decay,
And when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
Topic: Fate
Source: Mac Flecknoe (l. 1)
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