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

John Dryden

All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Best Silence Suffering Time
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Degree River Sea
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Death Finding Love Time Way
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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Charge Mindset Revenge Sharp
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
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
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
Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Crime Oblivion
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Evidence Passion Reason Rule Weakness
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Care Destroy Happiness Man Thinking
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad
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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fake Happiness Thinking Trust
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
JOHN DRYDEN

Conversation One Liner Soul

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