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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.

John Dryden

Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
All heiresses are beautiful.
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Beautiful One Liner
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Death Fear Known
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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Friendship Love Price Time Treat
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Age Alone Enough Reason Strong Walk Youth
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Conversation One Liner Soul
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Believe Faith Grace Reward See Strength
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Affection Goodness Grace Principal
A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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Conscience Goodness Image Man Reflection Water
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Glitter Gold
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
JOHN DRYDEN

Honor Judgement Man Member Mistake Order

If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.

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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.

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