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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

John Dryden

Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Hold Last Sweet
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Action Beautiful Fall Grace Himself People Wrong Youth
They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Happiness Live
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
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
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Death End Grave Kind Mourn
All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Empire Power Trust
Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Goodness Ignorance Nature Reason Right World
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True

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