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He who would search for pearls must dive below.

John Dryden

Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Fake Happiness Thinking Trust
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Build Destroy
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Hold Last Sweet
Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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Emotion Enthusiasm Height Imagination Paint Poet Soul
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Beautiful Language Oneself
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Devotion Ignorance Mom Myself Yourself
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Dance Foot Poetry
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Brown Easy Light Night
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
War is the trade of kings.
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King One Liner Trade War
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools

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