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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

John Dryden

There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Degree River Sea
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
War is the trade of kings.
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King One Liner Trade War
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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Heaven Praise Prayer Promise
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Author Himself Poet Theft Victory
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Lying Myself Wife
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
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
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Dreams Forget Forward Mindset Time
All heiresses are beautiful.
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Beautiful One Liner
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

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