Love is love’s reward.
JOHN DRYDENNot 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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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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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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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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