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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.

John Dryden

Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Age Distant Force Herself Nature Poet
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Age Alone Enough Reason Strong Walk Youth
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Pain Pleasure Sweet
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Discover Future Glide Haste Length Past
A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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Conscience Goodness Image Man Reflection Water
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Adversity Grief Misery Wicket
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Evidence Passion Reason Rule Weakness
By education most have been misled.
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Direction Education One Liner

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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