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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.

John Dryden

Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
By education most have been misled.
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Direction Education One Liner
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
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
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
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
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
Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
JOHN DRYDEN

Emotion Enthusiasm Height Imagination Paint Poet Soul
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature
None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Brave Deserve Fair
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Dance Foot Poetry
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
JOHN DRYDEN

Alone Day Happiness Live Man Myself Secure Worst
All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Empire Power Trust
Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
JOHN DRYDEN

Age Night Old Ourselves

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