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When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.

John Dryden

None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Devotion Ignorance Mom Myself Yourself
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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Anger Cherish Disappear Forget
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Myself Old Power Remember
For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Bound Drink Food Live Power Thinking
They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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Authority Better General Man Opinion Understand
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Hate Love Politics
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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Emotion Enthusiasm Height Imagination Paint Poet Soul
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection

When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.

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When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.

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