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Like you, an alien in a land unknown,I learn to pity woes so like my own.
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Sigh'd and look'd, and sigh'd again.
John Dryden
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Bacchus, ever fair and ever young.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.
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Above any Greek or Roman name.
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God never made His work for man to mend.
John Dryden
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Happy, happy, happy pair!None but the brave, None but the brave,None but the brave deserves the fair.
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And new-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy careTurn'd by a gentle fire and roasted rare.
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His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
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She knows her man, and when you rant and swear,Can draw you to her with a single hair.
John Dryden
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Even victors are by victories undone.
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'T is not for nothing that we life pursue;It pays our hopes with something still that's new.
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Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
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What precious drops are thoseWhich silently each other's track pursue,Bright as young diamonds in their infant dew?
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
John Dryden
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Like a led victim, to my death I'll go, And, dying, bless the hand that gave the blow.
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Timotheus, to his breathing flute, And sounding lyre,Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.
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All have not the gift of martyrdom.
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For they conquer who believe they can.
John Dryden