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

John Dryden

He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Hold Last Sweet
The winds are out of breath.
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Breathe Wind
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Myself Old Power Remember
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Benefit Fate Pleasure Relate Sorrow Time
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
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
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Enemy Forgiveness Greatness Injury Power Soul Time
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Desire God Greatness Sin
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Brave Chance Man Subject
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad

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