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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.

John Dryden

All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
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
The winds are out of breath.
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Breathe Wind
A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Cheating Man Passion Reason Truth
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Charge Mindset Revenge Sharp
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Beautiful Language Oneself
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
JOHN DRYDEN

Dance Foot Poetry
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
JOHN DRYDEN

Adversity Grief Misery Wicket
All heiresses are beautiful.
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Beautiful One Liner
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Brave Chance Man Subject
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
JOHN DRYDEN

Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth

A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.

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