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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

Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Beautiful Language Oneself
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Finite Grasp Infinity
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Goodness Myself Talk Truth
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Live Lost Luxury People Public
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Believe Faith Grace Reward See Strength
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Best Silence Suffering Time
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Build Destroy
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Himself Master Secret Servant Trust
Hushed as midnight silence.
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One Liner Silence
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
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Hold Last Sweet
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Brave Deserve Fair
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
Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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Creation Earth Eyes Man Mom Sky Soft
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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Emotion Enthusiasm Height Imagination Paint Poet Soul
Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Beware Man Patience
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due
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
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Age Empty Experience Known Start World

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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