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They say everything in the world is good for something.

John Dryden

Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Age Genius Kind Live Study Universe
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Live Lost Luxury People Public
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Numerous Talk Thinking
Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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Friendship Love Price Time Treat
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Bound Drink Food Live Power Thinking
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Devotion Ignorance Mom Myself Yourself
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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Estate Himself Misery Money Sell Soul
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
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

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