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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.

John Dryden

I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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Growth Myself Reputation Young
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
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Author Himself Poet Theft Victory
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
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Fake King Necessary Ruin True
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Numerous Talk Thinking
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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Boast Born Death End Journey Live Man Place Sincere
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
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
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
They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Happiness Live
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Beginning Growth Small
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Delight Freedom Human Kind
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Grace Strength
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Action Essence Fiction Human Poetry Story
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
The winds are out of breath.
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Breathe Wind
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Glitter Gold
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Future Heart State Tongue Tremble

Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.

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