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When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.

John Dryden

Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Fury Man Patience
Love is love’s reward.
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Love One Liner Reward
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Elegant Flower Heaven Western
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Myself Poverty Soul Virtue Warm
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
All heiresses are beautiful.
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Beautiful One Liner
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Believe Children Direction Education Lost Man
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
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
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
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Death End Grave Kind Mourn
Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Death Finding Love Time Way
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success

When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.

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When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.

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