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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.

John Dryden

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
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Beautiful Dangerous Surface Way
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Fly Joy Youth
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Fake King Necessary Ruin True
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
War is the trade of kings.
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King One Liner Trade War
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Ideas Nature Pleasure View
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Conversation One Liner Soul
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Lying Myself Wife
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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One Liner Power Regret Sin
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Build Destroy
Order is the greatest grace.
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Greatness One Liner Order Peace
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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Eyes Feeling Ourselves Soul Tender Togetherness Touch
Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Age Night Old Ourselves

Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.

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