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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.

John Dryden

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Care Destroy Happiness Man Thinking
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
JOHN DRYDEN

Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Equality Life Live Right
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Block Government Time
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Brown Easy Light Night
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Fortune Madness Prudence Rule
But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Cure Love
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Conversation One Liner Soul
A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Cheating Man Passion Reason 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
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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God Goodness Love Thinking World
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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One Liner Power Regret Sin
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief

Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.

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