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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.

John Dryden

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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Lost Mild Rage Sea Wind
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
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
Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Himself Loss See Vice
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Brave Chance Man Subject
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
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Pain Pleasure Sweet
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Thinking Unknown Whistle
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
Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Life Past
For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Believe Conquer
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight

We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.

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