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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.

John Dryden

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War
Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Charge Mindset Revenge Sharp
By education most have been misled.
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Direction Education One Liner
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Design God Mindset Ruin
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Pain Pleasure Sweet
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Advise Sick
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Infidelity Mysterious Thinking
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Glitter Gold
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Ideas Nature Pleasure View

Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.

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