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The stoic husband was the glorious thing.
The man had courage, was a sage, 'tis true,
And lov'd his country.
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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true
From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels
Than Caesar with a senate at his heels.
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That true self-love and social are the same.
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Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas; And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies? Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise? 'T is but to know how little can be known; To see all others' faults, and feel our own.
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Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend,
And rise to faults true critics dare not mend.
From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part
And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
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Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence,
The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
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True wit is Nature to advantage dressed,
What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
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Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.
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True disputants are like true sportsmen, their whole delight is in the pursuit. A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
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There various news I heard of love and strife,
Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life,
Of loss and gain, of famine and of store,
Of storms at sea, and travels on the shore,
Of prodigies, and portents seen in air,
Of fires and plagues, and stars with blazing hair,
Of turns of fortune, changes in the state,
The fall of favourites, projects of the great,
Of aid mismanagements, taxations new:
All neither wholly false, nor wholly true.
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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
Jack Kerouac
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Born:
May 21, 1688
Died:
May 30, 1744
(aged 56)
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