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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

John Dryden

But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Desire Hands Nature Sick Sin
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Best Kind Ourselves Steal
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Himself Master Secret Servant Trust
Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
JOHN DRYDEN

Emotion Enthusiasm Height Imagination Paint Poet Soul
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Different Fools Love Mindset Wisdom
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Creation Dew Greatness Himself Morning Spirit
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store
Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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Empty Enough Fortune Myself Soul
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Age Night Old Ourselves
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Face Need See Truth
Order is the greatest grace.
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Greatness One Liner Order Peace
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

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