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They that possess the prince possess the laws.

John Dryden

Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
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
Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Fury Man Patience
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Dance Foot Poetry
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Favorite Heaven Man
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Alone Day Happiness Live Man Myself Secure Worst
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Brown Easy Light Night
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Authors Enthusiasm Expectation Truth
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection
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
Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
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Best Give Up Knowledge Nature Production True
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure

They that possess the prince possess the laws.

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