Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
JOHN DRYDENNone 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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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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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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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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