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They live too long who happiness outlive.

John Dryden

Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Authors Enthusiasm Expectation Truth
Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Crime Oblivion
All heiresses are beautiful.
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Beautiful One Liner
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
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Gift Heaven Liberty Life 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
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Brave Chance Man Subject
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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Growth Myself Reputation Young
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Best Kind Ourselves Steal
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Enemy Forgiveness Greatness Injury Power Soul Time
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Devotion Ignorance Mom Myself Yourself
If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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Honor Judgement Man Member Mistake Order
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Death Fear Known

They live too long who happiness outlive.

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