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

John Dryden

Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Enemy Forgiveness Greatness Injury Power Soul Time
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation
Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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Eyes Feeling Ourselves Soul Tender Togetherness Touch
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Elegant Flower Heaven Western
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Conversation One Liner Soul
Order is the greatest grace.
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Greatness One Liner Order Peace
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Adventure First Forgiveness Reason Rule
Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
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Best Give Up Knowledge Nature Production True
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Freedom Man Nature Run Savage Wild
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See

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