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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.

John Dryden

The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Gift Heaven Liberty Life Love
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Different Fools Love Mindset Wisdom
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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Growth Myself Reputation Young
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
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Live Myself Past Power Rain Shine Worst
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
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Character Habit Inspirational Nature Ourselves
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Friendship Tears

Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.

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