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What passion cannot music raise and quell!

John Dryden

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Forgiveness Injury Wrong
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Death Dreams Heaven Herself Life Success
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Plate Time Writing
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Bound Habit Slave Vice
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Live Lost Luxury People Public
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Age Empty Experience Known Start World
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Author Himself Poet Theft Victory
If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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God Goodness Love Thinking World
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Race Run Swift Time

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