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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

John Dryden

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Creation Dew Greatness Himself Morning Spirit
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Death Finding Love Time Way
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Design God Mindset Ruin
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Desire God Greatness Sin
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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Growth Myself Reputation Young
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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Fake Happiness Thinking Trust
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Author Himself Poet Theft Victory
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Nature Obligation Response Trust
Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Errors Flow Gratitude Surface
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection

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