Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
JOHN DRYDENFiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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