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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.

John Dryden

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Degree River Sea
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Age Empty Experience Known Start World
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
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Hate Home Name Peace Soul
There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Gift Modesty Proud Time
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Elegant Flower Heaven Western
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Lying Myself Wife
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Freedom Subject Thrive
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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Friendship Love Price Time Treat
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject

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