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Sweet is pleasure after pain.

John Dryden

A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Cheating Man Passion Reason Truth
Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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Heaven Praise Prayer Promise
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
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
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Affection Goodness Grace Principal
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Live Lost Luxury People Public
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Believe Faith Grace Reward See Strength
Hushed as midnight silence.
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One Liner Silence
What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Dew Precious Pursue Track Young
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
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit

Sweet is pleasure after pain.

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