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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.

John Dryden

Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
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
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Fake King Necessary Ruin True
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
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Greatness Treason Trust
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Fly Joy Youth
Pity melts the mind to love.
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Love Mindset Pity
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Best Silence Suffering Time
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Act Generous Greatness Pleasure Secret
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Brave Chance Man Subject

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.

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