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He who would search for pearls must dive below.

John Dryden

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Cheating Favor Fools Hope Life
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
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
By education most have been misled.
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Direction Education One Liner
Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Life Past
A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Himself Man Paradise Sin Sorrow Woman
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Face Need See Truth
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Brown Easy Light Night
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Discover Future Glide Haste Length Past
Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Death Finding Love Time Way
For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Believe Conquer
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine

He who would search for pearls must dive below.

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