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They live too long who happiness outlive.

John Dryden

For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Bound Drink Food Live Power Thinking
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Instrument Laughter Man Rate
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Adventure First Forgiveness Reason Rule
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Forgiveness Injury Wrong
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Beautiful Language Oneself
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Bound Habit Slave Vice
If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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God Goodness Love Thinking World
Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Charge Mindset Revenge Sharp
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Plate Time Writing
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
Hushed as midnight silence.
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One Liner Silence
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools

They live too long who happiness outlive.

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