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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!

John Dryden

What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Dew Precious Pursue Track Young
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
JOHN DRYDEN

Follow Natural Obligation Paint Rock Sculptor
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Instrument Laughter Man Rate
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Glitter Gold
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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Fair Fate Myself Possession Rain Shine Time
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
Hushed as midnight silence.
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One Liner Silence
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Freedom Subject Thrive
Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Crime Murder Punishment Time
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Friendship Tears

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