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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.

John Dryden

If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Judgement People Thinking Understand Wrong
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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Anger Cherish Disappear Forget
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Brown Easy Light Night
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Hate Love Politics
Love is love’s reward.
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Love One Liner Reward
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Best Kind Ourselves Steal
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Infidelity Mysterious Thinking
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Adventure First Forgiveness Reason Rule
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Fortune Madness Prudence Rule
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Himself Loss See Vice
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

Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.

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