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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

John Dryden

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
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Lying Myself Wife
The winds are out of breath.
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Breathe Wind
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Fragile Love Mindset
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth
Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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Empty Enough Fortune Myself Soul
And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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Corruption Faith Freedom Need Scripture Sufficient
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Beginning Growth Small
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Dance Foot Poetry
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Freedom Man Nature Run Savage Wild
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Believe Easy Invisible Mindset Unknown
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

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