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

John Dryden

O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Delight Freedom Human Kind
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Bound Habit Slave Vice
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Desire Hands Nature Sick Sin
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Race Run Swift Time
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Pain Pleasure Sweet
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Believe Faith Grace Reward See Strength
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
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Life Man Origin Virtue Word
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Fools One Liner Patriot
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Elegant Flower Heaven Western
Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Life Past
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief

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

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