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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.

John Dryden

Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Age Genius Kind Live Study Universe
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Grace Strength
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Fortune Madness Prudence Rule
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Bound Habit Slave Vice
All heiresses are beautiful.
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Beautiful One Liner
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Freedom Man Nature Run Savage Wild
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
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Beautiful Dangerous Surface Way
Pity melts the mind to love.
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Love Mindset Pity
Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Fury Man Patience
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Face Need See Truth
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Delight Freedom Human Kind

Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.

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