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Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

John Dryden

A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Himself Man Paradise Sin Sorrow Woman
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Age Empty Experience Known Start World
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Fake Happiness Thinking Trust
They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Happiness Live
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Dreams Forget Forward Mindset Time
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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Heaven Praise Prayer Promise

Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

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Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

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