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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.

John Dryden

Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Hold Last Sweet
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Fools One Liner Patriot
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Numerous Talk Thinking
None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Brave Deserve Fair
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Hate Home Name Peace Soul
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Adversity Grief Misery Wicket
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Cheap Death Fame
Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Hate Love Politics
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Bound Habit Slave Vice
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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One Liner Power Regret Sin
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
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Age Genius Kind Live Study Universe
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

Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.

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