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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.

John Dryden

Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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Better Health Himself Man Work
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Dreams Forget Forward Mindset Time
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection
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
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Excitement Loud
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Ideas Nature Pleasure View
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Believe Children Direction Education Lost Man
Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Goodness Ignorance Nature Reason Right World
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Affection Goodness Grace Principal
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Life Past
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight

For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.

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