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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

John Dryden

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Forgiveness Injury Wrong
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Himself Scene
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Cheap Death Fame
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Care Destroy Happiness Man Thinking
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Action Essence Fiction Human Poetry Story
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.
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Emotion Enthusiasm Height Imagination Paint Poet Soul
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Grace Strength
All heiresses are beautiful.
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Beautiful One Liner
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Adventure First Forgiveness Reason Rule
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word

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