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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.

John Dryden

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Different Fools Love Mindset Wisdom
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Death End Grave Kind Mourn
Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Crime Oblivion
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Himself Scene
Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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Creation Earth Eyes Man Mom Sky Soft
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Genius Gift Happy Nature
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Creation Dew Greatness Himself Morning Spirit
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Glitter Gold
Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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Eagle Fools Mount Myself Wings
Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Death Finding Love Time Way
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
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
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
The winds are out of breath.
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Breathe Wind
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
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
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Delight Freedom Human Kind
By education most have been misled.
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Direction Education One Liner
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Believe Easy Invisible Mindset Unknown
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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Finding Himself Imperfection Mistake Secret
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War

I never saw any good that came of telling truth.

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