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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

John Dryden

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth
Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Fury Man Patience
The winds are out of breath.
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Breathe Wind
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
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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Growth Myself Reputation Young
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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Fair Fate Myself Possession Rain Shine Time
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Life Past
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Beginning Growth Small
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Lying Myself Wife
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Cheating Favor Fools Hope Life
War is the trade of kings.
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King One Liner Trade War
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Children Crave Growth Man

Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

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