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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

John Dryden

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Death Dreams Heaven Herself Life Success
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Life Man Origin Virtue Word
Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Hate Love Politics
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Cheating Favor Fools Hope Life
There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Advantage Modesty Proud
Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
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Best Give Up Knowledge Nature Production True
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
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
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

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