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Wit will shine
Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.
A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests.
Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700)
I am resolved to grow fat, and look young till forty.
The Maiden Queen (1667)
Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.
Alexander's Feast (1697)
Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child.
To the Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killegrew (1686)
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
For every inch that is not fool, is rogue.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
Better one suffer, than a nation grieve.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
Beware the fury of a patient man.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
Content with poverty, my soul I arm;
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
Imitation of Horace (1685)
The gates of hell are open night and day;
Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:
But to return, and view the cheerful skies,
In this the task and mighty labor lies.
The Works of Virgil (1697)
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense,
But good men starve for want of impudence.
Constantine the Great (1684)
For those whom God to ruin has designed
He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
For present joys are more to flesh and blood
Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
The love of liberty with life is given,
And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
All human things are subject to decay,
And, when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
Mac Flecknoe (1682)
For truth has such a face and such a mien
As to be loved needs only to be seen.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
A very merry, dancing, drinking,
Laughing, quaffing, and unthinkable time.
The Secular Masque (1700)
A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
Religio Laici (1682)
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
The Maiden Queen (1667)