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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.

John Dryden

Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Fly Joy Youth
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
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
Order is the greatest grace.
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Greatness One Liner Order Peace
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation
All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Empire Power Trust
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fake Lying Silence
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Forgiveness Injury Wrong
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Delight Freedom Human Kind
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Crime Murder Punishment Time
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Design God Mindset Ruin
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Brown Easy Light Night

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