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Griefs assured are felt before they come.

John Dryden

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
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Beautiful Dangerous Surface Way
But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Desire Hands Nature Sick Sin
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Pain Pleasure Sweet
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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Anger Cherish Disappear Forget
There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Gift Modesty Proud Time
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering
If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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God Goodness Love Thinking World
If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Judgement People Thinking Understand Wrong
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Face Need See Truth
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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Estate Himself Misery Money Sell Soul
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Desire God Greatness Sin
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Brown Easy Light Night
Love is love’s reward.
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Love One Liner Reward

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