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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!

John Dryden

If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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God Goodness Love Thinking World
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Brave Chance Man Subject
All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Empire Power Trust
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War
Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Death Finding Love Time Way
If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Judgement People Thinking Understand Wrong
None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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Hope Life Live Pleasure Run Thinking
Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Beware Man Patience
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Greatness Treason Trust
A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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Conscience Goodness Image Man Reflection Water
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Benefit Fate Pleasure Relate Sorrow Time

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