Politicians neither love nor hate.
Few know the use of life before 'tis past.
Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
Virtue is her own reward.
I am devilishly afraid, that's certain; but ... I'll sing, that I may seem valiant.
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.