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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.

John Dryden

But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Numerous Talk Thinking
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Freedom Subject Thrive
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Myself Poverty Soul Virtue Warm
None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Brave Deserve Fair
Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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Empty Enough Fortune Myself Soul
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Evidence Passion Reason Rule Weakness
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Cheap Death Fame
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Age Distant Force Herself Nature Poet
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
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
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Dance Foot Poetry
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Errors Flow Gratitude Surface
War is the trade of kings.
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King One Liner Trade War

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