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The winds are out of breath.

John Dryden

Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Authors Enthusiasm Expectation Truth
Hushed as midnight silence.
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One Liner Silence
Pity melts the mind to love.
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Love Mindset Pity
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Dance Foot Poetry
To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Common Death Devil Evil
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Fortune Madness Prudence Rule
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Myself Old Power Remember
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Freedom Man Nature Run Savage Wild
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Grace Strength
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Live Past Remember Thankful
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
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Live Lost Luxury People Public
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
Love is love’s reward.
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Love One Liner Reward

The winds are out of breath.

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