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When we're worn,
Hacked hewn with constant service, thrown aside
To rust in peace, or rot in hospitals.


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For love is but discovery:
When that is made, the pleasure's done.


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Of the king's creation you may be; but he who makes a count ne'er made a man.

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Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die.

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When guilt is in its blush of infancy, it trembles in a tenderness of shame; and the first eye that pierces through the veil that hides the secret brings it to the face

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There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause.

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Pity's akin to love; and every thought
Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul.


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The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together.

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Thomas Southerne

Thomas Southerne

Born: 1660
Died: May 26, 1746 (aged 86)
Bio: Thomas Southerne was an Irish dramatist.

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