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All heiresses are beautiful.

John Dryden

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
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Dance Foot Poetry
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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Day Eyes Round Shade Sight Soul
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Care Destroy Happiness Man Thinking
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Authors Enthusiasm Expectation Truth
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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One Liner Power Regret Sin
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
Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Beware Man Patience
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Death End Grave Kind Mourn
Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Favorite Heaven Man
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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Better Health Himself Man Work
Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Defense Law Nature

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