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Pity melts the mind to love.

John Dryden

Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Believe Conquer
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Advantage Modesty Proud
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Happiness Live
But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Cure Love
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Criticism Revenge Writing
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Gift Heaven Liberty Life Love
Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Discover Future Glide Haste Length Past
Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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Eyes Feeling Ourselves Soul Tender Togetherness Touch
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Lying Myself Wife

Pity melts the mind to love.

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