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“The poetry of the foot.”

— John Dryden

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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; And every little absence is an age.

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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.

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Death, in itself, is nothing; but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.

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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.

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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.

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