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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.

John Dryden

For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Design God Mindset Ruin
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Forgiveness Injury Wrong
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Build Destroy
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Brave Chance Man Subject
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
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
Love is love’s reward.
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Love One Liner Reward
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Finite Grasp Infinity
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
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
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Music Passion Raise
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Benefit Fate Pleasure Relate Sorrow Time
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Greatness Treason Trust
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place

None are so busy as the fool and the knave.

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