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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.

John Dryden

If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Evidence Passion Reason Rule Weakness
But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Desire Hands Nature Sick Sin
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Death End Grave Kind Mourn
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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Estate Himself Misery Money Sell Soul
Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Friendship Tears
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
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Beautiful Dangerous Surface Way
While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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Day Eyes Round Shade Sight Soul
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Cheap Death Fame
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
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Instrument Laughter Man Rate
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
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Lying Myself Wife
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Advantage Modesty Proud
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness

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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