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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

John Dryden

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
But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Cure Love
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
The conscience of a people is their power.
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Conscience People Power
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Brave Chance Man Subject
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Benefit Fate Pleasure Relate Sorrow Time
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Forgiveness Injury Wrong
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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Lost Mild Rage Sea Wind
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Age Alone Enough Reason Strong Walk Youth
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering
A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
JOHN DRYDEN

Conscience Goodness Image Man Reflection Water
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
JOHN DRYDEN

Familiar Lose Object View

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