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They that possess the prince possess the laws.

John Dryden

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Death Fear Known
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
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
Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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Boast Born Death End Journey Live Man Place Sincere
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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Eyes Feeling Ourselves Soul Tender Togetherness Touch
He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Thinking Unknown Whistle
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Fake Happiness Thinking Trust
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Goodness Myself Talk Truth
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
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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Emotion Enthusiasm Height Imagination Paint Poet Soul
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Author Himself Poet Theft Victory
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Fly Joy Youth

They that possess the prince possess the laws.

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