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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.

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
There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Gift Modesty Proud Time
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Death End Grave Kind Mourn
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Infidelity Mysterious Thinking
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Creation Dew Greatness Himself Morning Spirit
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Himself Scene
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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Growth Myself Reputation Young
If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Judgement People Thinking Understand Wrong
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Build Destroy
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Instrument Laughter Man Rate
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Myself Old Power Remember
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

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