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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.

John Dryden

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
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
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
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Live Myself Past Power Rain Shine Worst
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Plate Time Writing
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Life Past
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Delight Freedom Human Kind
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Evidence Passion Reason Rule Weakness
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Grace Strength

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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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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