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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.

John Dryden

He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Himself Master Secret Servant Trust
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Cheating Favor Fools Hope Life
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Cheap Death Fame
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Glitter Gold
To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Common Death Devil Evil
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
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Bold Fear Greatness Mask
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit

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