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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.

John Dryden

They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Fools One Liner Patriot
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Evidence Passion Reason Rule Weakness
But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Desire Hands Nature Sick Sin
But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Cure Love
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Dreams Forget Forward Mindset Time
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Fragile Love Mindset
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Care Destroy Happiness Man Thinking
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Adversity Grief Misery Wicket
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering
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

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