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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.

John Dryden

Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Enemy Forgiveness Greatness Injury Power Soul Time
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
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth
Pity melts the mind to love.
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Love Mindset Pity
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Lying Myself Wife
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire 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
Hushed as midnight silence.
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One Liner Silence
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Plate Time Writing
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Bound Drink Food Live Power Thinking
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth

All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.

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