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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.

John Dryden

Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
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
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Fly Joy Youth
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Fight King Mad Man Praise
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Evidence Passion Reason Rule Weakness
If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Judgement People Thinking Understand Wrong
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Elegant Flower Heaven Western
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Enemy Forgiveness Greatness Injury Power Soul Time
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Benefit Fate Pleasure Relate Sorrow Time
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Dreams Forget Forward Mindset Time
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Finite Grasp Infinity
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Freedom Man Nature Run Savage Wild
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
JOHN DRYDEN

Live Myself Past Power Rain Shine Worst

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