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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

Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Life Man Origin Virtue Word
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Fake Happiness Thinking Trust
All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Empire Power Trust
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
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Death End Grave Kind Mourn
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Conversation One Liner Soul
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Delight Freedom Human Kind
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Block Government Time
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
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Brown Easy Light Night
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Live Myself Past Power Rain Shine Worst

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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