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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.

John Dryden

Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Crime Oblivion
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Plate Time Writing
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Age Writing
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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Honor Judgement Man Member Mistake Order
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
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Age Alone Enough Reason Strong Walk Youth
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Author Himself Poet Theft Victory
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Degree River Sea
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
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Fragile Love Mindset
But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Desire Hands Nature Sick Sin
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Fortune Madness Prudence Rule
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Different Fools Love Mindset Wisdom

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