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Griefs assured are felt before they come.

John Dryden

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
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Goodness Myself Talk Truth
A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Himself Man Paradise Sin Sorrow Woman
All heiresses are beautiful.
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Beautiful One Liner
The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Excitement Loud
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
All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Empire Power Trust
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Music Passion Raise
Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Charge Mindset Revenge Sharp
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Grace Strength
Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Nature Obligation Response Trust
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
If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Live Past Remember Thankful
Pity melts the mind to love.
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Love Mindset Pity
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Myself Poverty Soul Virtue Warm

Griefs assured are felt before they come.

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