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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!

John Dryden

By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Believe Children Direction Education Lost Man
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Ideas Nature Pleasure View
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
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
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Fortune Madness Prudence Rule
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Fools One Liner Patriot
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Best Silence Suffering Time
Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Favorite Heaven Man
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Himself Loss See Vice
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Age Empty Experience Known Start World
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
JOHN DRYDEN

Dance Foot Poetry

Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!

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