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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.

John Dryden

At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Hate Home Name Peace Soul
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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Friendship Love Price Time Treat
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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Estate Himself Misery Money Sell Soul
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Advantage Modesty Proud
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
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Lying Myself Wife
Love is love’s reward.
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Love One Liner Reward
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Forgiveness Injury Wrong
For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Design God Mindset Ruin
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
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
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit

Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.

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