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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

John Dryden

He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Himself Master Secret Servant Trust
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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God Goodness Love Thinking World
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
Order is the greatest grace.
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Greatness One Liner Order Peace
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
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Gift Modesty Proud Time
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
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
Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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Himself Judgement Praise Theme
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Myself Old Power Remember
Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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Choice Delight Evil Lying Object Truth Understand
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Himself Scene
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Art Nature Teaching

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