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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.

John Dryden

If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
JOHN DRYDEN

Live Past Remember Thankful
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Pain Pleasure Sweet
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Brown Easy Light Night
Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Fury Man Patience
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Design God Mindset Ruin
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
JOHN DRYDEN

Corruption Faith Freedom Need Scripture Sufficient
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Authors Enthusiasm Expectation Truth
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Character Habit Inspirational Nature Ourselves
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Adventure First Forgiveness Reason Rule
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Age Writing
For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Believe Conquer
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Conversation One Liner Soul
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness

For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.

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