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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.

John Dryden

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Alone Day Happiness Live Man Myself Secure Worst
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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Authority Better General Man Opinion Understand
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Act Generous Greatness Pleasure Secret
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
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
War is the trade of kings.
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King One Liner Trade War
So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Death Dreams Heaven Herself Life Success
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Divine Faculty Force God Kind Man Philosophy
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Death End Grave Kind Mourn
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Devotion Ignorance Mom Myself Yourself
Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Nature Obligation Response Trust
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight

I never saw any good that came of telling truth.

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