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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

John Dryden

Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
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
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Cheating Favor Fools Hope Life
A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Himself Man Paradise Sin Sorrow Woman
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Defense Law Nature
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Action Essence Fiction Human Poetry Story
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
When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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Cheat Day False Fools Life
Love is love’s reward.
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Love One Liner Reward
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Friendship Tears
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Himself Scene
Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Death Finding Love Time Way
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

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

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