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There is a proud modesty in merit.

John Dryden

While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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Day Eyes Round Shade Sight Soul
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Music Passion Raise
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
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
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
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Age Alone Enough Reason Strong Walk Youth
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Dance Foot Poetry
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Glitter Gold
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
JOHN DRYDEN

Best Kind Ourselves Steal
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Death End Grave Kind Mourn
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Errors Flow Gratitude Surface

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