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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

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
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
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
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Bold Fear Greatness Mask
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
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Glitter Gold
War is the trade of kings.
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King One Liner Trade War
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Myself Old Power Remember
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
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Fragile Love Mindset
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Cheap Death Fame
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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One Liner Power Regret Sin
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Himself Scene

For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

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