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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!

John Dryden

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
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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Continue End Goodness Grace Principal Virtue
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth
Hushed as midnight silence.
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One Liner Silence
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Happiness Live
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Fight King Mad Man Praise
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: 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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Live Myself Past Power Rain Shine Worst
For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Design God Mindset Ruin
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Glitter Gold
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Himself Scene
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.
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Best Kind Ourselves Steal
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
JOHN DRYDEN

Live Lost Luxury People Public

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