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Pity melts the mind to love.

John Dryden

None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Brave Deserve Fair
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Build Destroy
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
A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Cheating Man Passion Reason Truth
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Devotion Ignorance Mom Myself Yourself
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Creation Dew Greatness Himself Morning Spirit
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Cheap Death Fame
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Action Beautiful Fall Grace Himself People Wrong Youth
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
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering
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
War is the trade of kings.
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King One Liner Trade War
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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