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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.

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
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
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
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
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
Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Fury Man Patience
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Cure Love
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Greatness Treason Trust
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Hold Last Sweet
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Grace Strength
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
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Finite Grasp Infinity
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Life Past
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Face Need See Truth

Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.

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