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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.

John Dryden

More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Live Lost Luxury People Public
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
Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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Eyes Feeling Ourselves Soul Tender Togetherness Touch
Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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Lost Mild Rage Sea Wind
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Care Destroy Happiness Man Thinking
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Action Essence Fiction Human Poetry Story
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Grace Strength
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Dance Foot Poetry
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
JOHN DRYDEN

Ideas Nature Pleasure View

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