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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

John Dryden

Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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Conscience Goodness Image Man Reflection Water
Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Crime Murder Punishment Time
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Fools One Liner Patriot
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Finite Grasp Infinity
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Elegant Flower Heaven Western
Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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Fair Fate Myself Possession Rain Shine Time
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Fake King Necessary Ruin True
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Race Run Swift Time
Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Goodness Ignorance Nature Reason Right World
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
All heiresses are beautiful.
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Beautiful One Liner

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