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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.

John Dryden

Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Build Destroy
Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Charge Mindset Revenge Sharp
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Age Distant Force Herself Nature Poet
War is the trade of kings.
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King One Liner Trade War
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Believe Easy Invisible Mindset Unknown
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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One Liner Power Regret Sin
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
All heiresses are beautiful.
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Beautiful One Liner
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Himself Loss See Vice
Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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Boast Born Death End Journey Live Man Place Sincere
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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Himself Judgement Praise Theme
But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Cure Love
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection

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 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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