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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.

John Dryden

Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Adventure First Forgiveness Reason Rule
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
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
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Pain Pleasure Sweet
Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Criticism Revenge Writing
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Death Fear Known
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
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

Fake Happiness Thinking Trust

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