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

John Dryden

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
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
Love is love’s reward.
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Love One Liner Reward
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Children Crave Growth Man
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Gift Heaven Liberty Life Love
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Adventure First Forgiveness Reason Rule
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Himself Scene
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Grace Strength
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
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools
Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Equality Life Live Right
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect

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

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