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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.

John Dryden

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
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Happiness Live
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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Anger Cherish Disappear Forget
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Adversity Grief Misery Wicket
Love is love’s reward.
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Love One Liner Reward
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Art Nature Teaching
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Different Fools Love Mindset Wisdom
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Dreams Forget Forward Mindset Time
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Myself Poverty Soul Virtue Warm
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
JOHN DRYDEN

Future Heart State Tongue Tremble

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