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

John Dryden

The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Hold Last Sweet
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Fly Joy Youth
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Pain Pleasure Sweet
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Death End Grave Kind Mourn
Hushed as midnight silence.
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One Liner Silence
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Himself Scene
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
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Plate Time Writing
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Myself Poverty Soul Virtue Warm
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Action Essence Fiction Human Poetry Story

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