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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.

John Dryden

But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Desire Hands Nature Sick Sin
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Race Run Swift 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
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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Eagle Fools Mount Myself Wings
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Benefit Fate Pleasure Relate Sorrow Time
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Freedom Man Nature Run Savage Wild
While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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Day Eyes Round Shade Sight Soul
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
Pity melts the mind to love.
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Love Mindset Pity
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Bold Fear Greatness Mask
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
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

Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.

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