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Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
To My Dear Friend, Mr. Congreve, On His Comedy Called The Double-Dealer · 1694
Nor is the people's judgment always true: The most may err as grossly as the few.
Absalom and Achitophel · 1681
For present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
The Hind and the Panther: A Poem, in Three Parts · 1687
There is a pleasure sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know!
The Spanish Friar, or the Double Discovery · 1680
The Spanish Friar, or the Double Discovery · 1680
Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.
Tyrannick Love, or The Royal Martyr · 1669
Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
Absalom and Achitophel · 1681
Look round the habitable world! how few Know their own good; or knowing it, pursue.
Satires of Juvenal · 1693