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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.

John Dryden

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
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Lying Myself Wife
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Conversation One Liner Soul
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Different Fools Love Mindset Wisdom
A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Cheating Man Passion Reason Truth
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Future Heart State Tongue Tremble
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
Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Crime Murder Punishment Time
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
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
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due

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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