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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.

John Dryden

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Children Crave Growth Man
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
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Himself Scene
Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Favorite Heaven Man
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
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Care Destroy Happiness Man Thinking
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Death End Grave Kind Mourn
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Discover Future Glide Haste Length Past
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Evidence Passion Reason Rule Weakness
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Brown Easy Light Night
Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Criticism Revenge Writing
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine

None are so busy as the fool and the knave.

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