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

John Dryden

If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Judgement People Thinking Understand Wrong
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Authors Enthusiasm Expectation Truth
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Bound Habit Slave Vice
A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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Conscience Goodness Image Man Reflection Water
At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Hate Home Name Peace Soul
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
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
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
Hushed as midnight silence.
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One Liner Silence
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Divine Faculty Force God Kind Man Philosophy
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect

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

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