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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.

John Dryden

Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Fake Happiness Thinking Trust
Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Errors Flow Gratitude Surface
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
JOHN DRYDEN

Anger Cherish Disappear Forget
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Fortune Madness Prudence Rule
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Beginning Growth Small
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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One Liner Power Regret Sin
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Myself Poverty Soul Virtue Warm
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
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Creation Dew Greatness Himself Morning Spirit
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Goodness Myself Talk Truth
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
JOHN DRYDEN

Best Give Up Knowledge Nature Production True

For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.

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