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Virtue is her own reward.

John Dryden

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
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Face Need See Truth
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Freedom Subject Thrive
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Devotion Ignorance Mom Myself Yourself
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Authors Enthusiasm Expectation Truth
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Fly Joy Youth
I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Fight Myself Rise Wound
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Infidelity Mysterious Thinking
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Race Run Swift Time
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure

Virtue is her own reward.

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