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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.

John Dryden

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
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Dreams Forget Forward Mindset Time
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Adversity Grief Misery Wicket
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Hold Last Sweet
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Himself Scene
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Death Dreams Heaven Herself Life Success
Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Hate Love Politics
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
Order is the greatest grace.
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Greatness One Liner Order Peace
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Himself Master Secret Servant Trust
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Beginning Growth Small
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known

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