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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.

John Dryden

Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Grace Strength
A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Himself Man Paradise Sin Sorrow Woman
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
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
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Age Distant Force Herself Nature Poet
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Fragile Love Mindset
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
All heiresses are beautiful.
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Beautiful One Liner
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Devotion Ignorance Mom Myself Yourself
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Finite Grasp Infinity
For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Believe Conquer
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Brave Deserve Fair

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