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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!

John Dryden

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
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation
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
Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Crime Murder Punishment Time
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Finite Grasp Infinity
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Age Distant Force Herself Nature Poet
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Action Beautiful Fall Grace Himself People Wrong Youth
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Crime Oblivion
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Believe Conquer
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Authors Enthusiasm Expectation Truth
Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Death Finding Love Time Way
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Action Essence Fiction Human Poetry Story

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