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All heiresses are beautiful.

John Dryden

Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
Love is love’s reward.
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Love One Liner Reward
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
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
If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Judgement People Thinking Understand Wrong
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Himself Master Secret Servant Trust
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Cheating Favor Fools Hope Life
So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Death Dreams Heaven Herself Life Success
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Alone Day Happiness Live Man Myself Secure Worst
If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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God Goodness Love Thinking World
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Delight Freedom Human Kind
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Freedom Subject Thrive
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

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