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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.

John Dryden

A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Believe Easy Invisible Mindset Unknown
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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Follow Natural Obligation Paint Rock Sculptor
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Hold Last Sweet
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Forgiveness Injury Wrong
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Desire God Greatness Sin
Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Criticism Revenge Writing
What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
JOHN DRYDEN

Dew Precious Pursue Track Young
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
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Art Nature Teaching
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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Estate Himself Misery Money Sell Soul
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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One Liner Power Regret Sin
Pity melts the mind to love.
JOHN DRYDEN

Love Mindset Pity

Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.

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