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

John Dryden

Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Face Need See Truth
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
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
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Divine Faculty Force God Kind Man Philosophy
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Desire God Greatness Sin
All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Empire Power Trust
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Adversity Grief Misery Wicket
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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Best Kind Ourselves Steal
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Block Government Time
The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Excitement Loud
All heiresses are beautiful.
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Beautiful One Liner

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

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