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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

John Dryden

So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
Hushed as midnight silence.
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One Liner Silence
But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Cure Love
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Death End Grave Kind Mourn
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Fragile Love Mindset
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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God Goodness Love Thinking World
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Race Run Swift Time
Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Future Heart State Tongue Tremble
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Greatness Treason Trust
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
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
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 you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Live Past Remember Thankful

Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

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