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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.

John Dryden

Pity melts the mind to love.
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Love Mindset Pity
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Age Genius Kind Live Study Universe
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
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Elegant Flower Heaven Western
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
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
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Character Habit Inspirational Nature Ourselves
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
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Freedom Man Nature Run Savage Wild
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
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Numerous Talk Thinking
While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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Day Eyes Round Shade Sight Soul
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View

War seldom enters but where wealth allures.

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