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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.

John Dryden

Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
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Live Myself Past Power Rain Shine Worst
Pity melts the mind to love.
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Love Mindset Pity
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Myself Old Power Remember
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad
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
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Benefit Fate Pleasure Relate Sorrow Time
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Best Kind Ourselves Steal
There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Advantage Modesty Proud
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War
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
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Desire God Greatness Sin
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve

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