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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.

John Dryden

Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Crime Murder Punishment Time
Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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Lost Mild Rage Sea Wind
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Brown Easy Light Night
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Evidence Passion Reason Rule Weakness
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Finite Grasp Infinity
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Ideas Nature Pleasure View
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Believe Easy Invisible Mindset Unknown
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
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store
They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Happiness Live
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Bold Fear Greatness Mask
But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Cure Love
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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Growth Myself Reputation Young
Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.

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