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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

John Dryden

Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Friendship Tears
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Glitter Gold
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools
Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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Emotion Enthusiasm Height Imagination Paint Poet Soul
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Elegant Flower Heaven Western
He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Thinking Unknown Whistle
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Live Lost Luxury People Public
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Face Need See Truth
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Build Destroy
Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Beware Man Patience
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Himself Master Secret Servant Trust
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson

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