But now the world's o'er stocked with prudent men.
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Dim, as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travelers Is reason to the soul.John Dryden
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Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
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But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.
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He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul.... He was naturally learnd he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature he looked inwards, and found her there.... He is many times flat, insipid his comic wit degenerating in to clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some occasion is presented to him.
John Dryden
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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