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| Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader | | Criticism | |
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| Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where. | | Death and dying | |
| Did wisely from expensive sins refrain, / And never broke the Sabbath, but for gain. | | Uncategorized | |
| Drinking is the soldier's pleasure. | | Drinking | |
| During his office, treason was no crime. / The sons of Belial had a glorious time. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below | | Errors | |
| Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; he who would search for pearls must dive below. | | Uncategorized | |
| Even victors are by victory undone | | Victory | |
| Every age has a kind of universal genius, which includes those that live in it to some particular studies | | Age | |
| Far more numerous are those as such; who think to little and talk to much. | | Uncategorized | |
| Farewell, too little and too lately known, / Whom I began to think and call my own. | | Uncategorized | |
| Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings / I bore this wren till I was tired with soaring, / And now he mounts above me. | | Uncategorized | |
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| For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss. | | Art; Nature | |
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