When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind! - John Dryden

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An horrid stillness first invades the ear,
And in that silence we the tempest fear.

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For whatsoe'er their sufferings were before,
That change they covet makes them suffer more.
All other errors but disturb a state;
But innovation is the blow of fate.

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Plots, true or false, are necessary things,
To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.

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