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They say everything in the world is good for something.

John Dryden

Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Enemy Forgiveness Greatness Injury Power Soul Time
Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Fury Man Patience
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Age Distant Force Herself Nature Poet
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
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Live Myself Past Power Rain Shine Worst
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Excitement Loud
What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Dew Precious Pursue Track Young
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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Estate Himself Misery Money Sell Soul
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Errors Flow Gratitude Surface
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Believe Easy Invisible Mindset Unknown

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