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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

John Dryden

Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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Hope Life Live Pleasure Run Thinking
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Character Habit Inspirational Nature Ourselves
Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Goodness Ignorance Nature Reason Right World
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Freedom Subject Thrive
Order is the greatest grace.
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Greatness One Liner Order Peace
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Plate Time Writing
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Degree River Sea
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Finite Grasp Infinity
What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Dew Precious Pursue Track Young
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Care Destroy Happiness Man Thinking
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Judgement People Thinking Understand Wrong

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